The Governors General: The English Army And The Definition Of The Empire, 1569-1681
In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection...
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In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection that found expression in the garrisoned cities of England, Scotland, and Ireland and ultimately in the palisaded plantations of Jamaica, Virginia, and New England.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807841860 (0807841862)
Publish date: 1987-07
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 561
Edition language: English
Series: The Governors-General (#1)
The history of colonial America has long been viewed as having been shaped primarily by commercial and ideological interests. Accounts of the period have focused on such factors as the profit-making origins of colonial Virginia, the religious interests of the Puritans settling Massachusetts, and the...
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