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

"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 g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rapple, Rory
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Colección:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.