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Author Rapple, Rory.

Title Martial power and Elizabethan political culture : military men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594 / Rory Rapple.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.
Contents Chimneys in summer -- Martial men and their discontents -- The limits of allegiance : English martial men, Europe and the Elizabethan regime -- The captains and the Irish context -- The limits of imperium : martial men and government -- The limits of rhetoric : the captains and violence in Elizabethan Ireland to 1588 -- Unlimited indemnity : delegates versus viceroys.
Summary "This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial men, left deeply frustrated as Elizabeth I's quietist foreign policy destroyed the ambitions that the wars of the mid sixteenth century had excited in them. Rory Rapple examines the experiences and attitudes of this generation of officers and points to a previously overlooked literature of complaint that offered a stinging critique of the monarch and the administration of Sir William Cecil. He also argues that the captains' actions in Ireland, their treatment of its inhabitants and their conceptualisation of both relied on assumptions, attitudes and political thinking which resulted more from their frustration with the status quo in England than from any tendency to 'other' the Irish. This book will be required reading for scholars of early modern British and Irish history."--Jacket.
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Subject Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Military leadership.
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
Command of troops.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1485-1603.
Great Britain.
History, Military.
Chronological Term 1485-1603
Subject Great Britain -- Military policy.
Military policy.
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Ireland.
International relations.
Ireland.
Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Other Form: Print version: Rapple, Rory. Martial power and Elizabethan political culture. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008039993
ISBN 0511464444 (electronic book)
9780511464447 (electronic book)
9780511465185 (electronic book)
0511465181 (electronic book)
0521843537 (Cloth)
9780521843539 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786611982607