Elizabeth's Wars War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604

by Hammer, Paul E.J.

• ISBN13: 9780333919439
• ISBN10: 0333919432
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-03
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

The human and financial cost of war between 1544 and 1604 strained English government and society to their limits. Paul E. J. Hammer offers a new narrative of these wars which weaves together developments on land and sea. Combining original work and a synthesis of existing research, Hammer explores how the government of Elizabeth I overhauled English strategy and weapons to create forces capable of confronting the might of Habsburg Spain.

Author Biography

Paul E.J. Hammer has taught in Australia at the Universities of New England and Adelaide, and currently lectures in the Department of Modern History at the University of St Andrew's.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	viii
List of Tables	ix
Technical Terms and Conventions	x
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction	1	(8)
The Glory of War: operations and developments, 1544--1558	9	(45)
War with Scotland, 1542--44	14	(2)
The Invasion of France, 1544	16	(4)
War on Two Fronts, 1544--46	20	(5)
The Cost of Henry's Wars	25	(9)
Somerset's war, 1547--49	34	(9)
Military Exhaustion, 1550--57	43	(5)
Mary's War, 1557--58	48	(6)
The Burden of War: operations and developments, 1558--c.1572	54	(39)
False Dawn: Scotland 1559--60	57	(5)
Fiasco in France, 1562--63	62	(5)
The Cost of War, 1559--69	67	(3)
Ireland, 1534--76	70	(8)
Public Investment and Private Enterprise	78	(3)
Spain and the Spectre of War, 1567--72	81	(6)
The Low Countries, 1572--74	87	(6)
The Spectre of War: operations and developments, c.1572--1585	93	(28)
Militia Reform and the Demands of Training	97	(7)
England Besieged, 1577--84	104	(7)
The Low Countries, 1578--84	111	(4)
The Outbreak of War, 1584--85	115	(6)
The Perils of War: operations and developments, 1585--1588	121	(33)
The War Goes Sour, 1586--87	132	(5)
The `Enterprise of England', 1585--88	137	(17)
The Depths of War: operations and developments, 1589--1595	154	(36)
Privateering and the War at Sea	161	(8)
The Netherlands after Leicester	169	(6)
France and the Descent into `Deep War', 1589--94	175	(7)
The Continent or Ireland? The Costs and Choices of War	182	(8)
The Limits of War: operations and developments, 1596--1604	190	(46)
Calais, Cadiz and the Spanish `Armada' of 1596	192	(7)
The Azores Expedition and the Spanish `Armada' of 1597	199	(5)
The War Reshaped, 1598	204	(7)
Essex in Ireland, 1599	211	(5)
Ireland and the Low Countries, 1600--01	216	(7)
Ostend and Kinsale	223	(6)
Shuffling Towards Peace, 1602--04	229	(7)
The Reformation of War	236	(29)
The Elizabethan Military Achievement	253	(6)
An Elizabethan `Military Revolution'?	259	(6)
Abbreviations	265	(2)
Notes	267	(23)
Select Bibliography of Modern Sources	290	(11)
Maps	301	(9)
Index	310