Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668

by Steven C. A. Pincus

• ISBN13: 9780521893688
• ISBN10: 0521893682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Protestantism and Patriotism offers a fundamental reinterpretation of English political culture between 1650 and 1668. It is also both the most detailed study to date of the causes and consequences of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654 and 1665-1667), and a configuration of the English political nation which engaged in those two conflicts. Professor Pincus argues that it is impossible to understand the making of English foreign policy in this period without a careful study of its ideological contexts, while at the same time suggesting that accounts of English domestic politics which ignore the ideological implications of England's place in European political culture are impoverished. Because of the broad context in which the Anglo-Dutch Wars are situated, the book will appeal not only to specialists in English foreign policy but to all those interested in seventeenth-century English and Dutch politics and culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I The rod of the Lord: ideology and the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War
Historiographical overview	11	(4)
The attempt at unification	15	(25)
The road to war	40	(43)
Coda: the popular apocalyptic context	76	(7)
Part II To unite against the common enemy: the 1654 Treaty of Westminster and the end of apocalyptic foreign policy
Historiographical overview	83	(4)
The causes of the war stated	87	(14)
Peace proposed	101	(14)
Political upheavals and ideological divisions	115	(34)
The rejection of apocalyptic foreign policy	149	(19)
The Protectorate's new foreign policy	168	(27)
Part III Popery, trade, and universal monarchy: ideology and the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
Historiographical overview	195	(4)
The establishment of an Orangist foreign policy	199	(15)
The Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1662	214	(8)
The Northern Rebellion and the reestablishment of Anglican Royalist consensus	222	(15)
The April 1664 trade resolution	237	(19)
Popery, trade, and universal monarchy	256	(15)
Part IV The Medway, Breda, and the Triple Alliance: the collapse of Anglican Royalist Foreign Policy
Historiographical overview	271	(5)
The circulation of news and the course of the war	276	(13)
The popular understanding of the war	289	(29)
The government's war aims	318	(13)
An Orangist revolution	331	(12)
Victory denied and wartime consensus shattered	343	(26)
The rise of political opposition	369	(10)
The road to Chatham: the decision not to send out a battle fleet	379	(28)
The demise of Anglican Royalist foreign policy	407	(34)
Conclusion	441	(12)
Bibliography	453	(33)
Index	486