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Author Rapple, Rory.

Title Martial power and Elizabethan political culture : military men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594 / Rory Rapple
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Military leadership
SUBJECT Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 fast
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Diplomatic relations
Command of troops
Military policy
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056837
Great Britain -- Military policy
Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056783
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Ireland
Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Subject Great Britain
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008039993
ISBN 0511464444
9780511464447
9780511465185
0511465181
9780511575167
0511575165