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Author Carlton, Charles, 1941-

Title This seat of Mars : war and the British Isles, 1485-1746 / Charles Carlton.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  355.020941 C197t 2011    ---  Available
Description xxii, 332 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Summary Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often--and most bloodily--against each other. The almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and one-half centuries between Bosworth and Culloden decimated lives, but created the British state and forged the nation as the world's predominant power. In this innovative and moving book, Charles Carlton explores the glorious and terrible 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. Carlton expertly charts the remarkable military developments over the period, as well as war's enduring corollaries -- camaraderie, courage, fear, and grief--to give a powerful account of the profound effect of war on the British Isles and its peoples. -- Jacket.
Subject Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1485-1603.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 18th century.
Added Title War and the British Isles, 1485-1746
ISBN 9780300139136 (cl : alk. paper)
0300139136 (cl : alk. paper)

 
    
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