
The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada Did Not Put An End To Spanish Sea Power, Nor To Spain's Ambitions In Northern Europe. By The Mid-1590s Spain Had Recovered From The Disaster Of 1588, And The Renewed Naval Wars Together With The Outbreak Of Rebellion In Ireland From The Principal Themes Of This Book. R B Wernham Sets Out To Examine These Major Events Of The Last Years Of The Queen Elizabeth's Reign And To Assess Their Impact On English Policy. Professor Wernham Shows How Much Of The Impetus In Foreign Policy Derived From The Earl Of Essex, Whose Personal Ambition And Practical Incompetence Brought Frustration And Danger, And Ultimately Led Him Through Rebellion To The Scaffold. It Was Left To Mountjoy In Ireland, To Leveson And A New Generation Of Sea Commanders, And Above All To Robert Cecil, To Bring War And Rebellion To A Reasonably Satisfactory Conclusion. The Return Of The Armadas Is A Superbly Integrated And Lucidly Written Study In Grand Strategy By A Leading Historian Of Elizabethan Affairs.
This book investigates the strategic challenges and political maneuvers characterizing the final phase of the Anglo-Spanish War between 1595 and 1603. R. B. Wernham, a distinguished historian of the Elizabethan period, utilizes archival records and state papers to analyze the intersection of naval conflict and domestic policy. He argues that the persistence of Spanish naval power and the Irish rebellion forced a shift in English foreign policy, moving away from the erratic influence of the Earl of Essex toward the more calculated administration of Robert Cecil.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Historians and scholars of the Tudor period recognize this work as a definitive account of Elizabethan grand strategy. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which provides a rigorous examination of the political complexities inherent in late sixteenth-century warfare.
Page Count:
466
Publication Date:
1994-01-01
Publisher:
Clarendon Press
ISBN-10:
0191591742
ISBN-13:
9780191591747
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