This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746
2011
355.00941 C285 2011
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Title
This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746
Variant Title
War and the British Isles, 1485-1746
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
Description
xxii, 332 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
355.00941 C285 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)711045589
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Early Tudor Warfare, 1485-1558 -- Give me spirit: joining and training -- This happy breed of men: Elizabethan Warfare, 1558-1603 -- Why men fought -- Those were Golden Days: early Stuart Warfare, 1603-1639 -- Low intensity combat: campaigning -- All diseas'd: Civil Wars and Commonwealth: events, 1638-1660 -- Talk you of killing: Civil Wars and commonwealth: impact, 1638-1660 -- High intensity combat: battles and sieges -- Restoration to glorious revolution, 1660-1688 -- The peril of the waters: war at sea -- Let slip the dogs of war: after the glorious revolution 1688-1746 -- The hurlyburly's done: the aftermath of combat.
L2013M84
Carlton explores the impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death; charts the military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples--Jacket.
Contents: Early Tudor Warfare, 1485-1558 -- Give me spirit: joining and training -- This happy breed of men: Elizabethan Warfare, 1558-1603 -- Why men fought -- Those were Golden Days: early Stuart Warfare, 1603-1639 -- Low intensity combat: campaigning -- All diseas'd: Civil Wars and Commonwealth: events, 1638-1660 -- Talk you of killing: Civil Wars and commonwealth: impact, 1638-1660 -- High intensity combat: battles and sieges -- Restoration to glorious revolution, 1660-1688 -- The peril of the waters: war at sea -- Let slip the dogs of war: after the glorious revolution 1688-1746 -- The hurlyburly's done: the aftermath of combat.
L2013M84
Carlton explores the impact of war at the national and individual levels. Chapters alternate, providing a robust military and political narrative interlaced with accounts illuminating the personal experience of war, from recruitment to the end of battle in discharge or death; charts the military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples--Jacket.
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