Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part 1. The Rod of the Lord: Ideology and the Outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War: 2. Historiographical overview
3. The attempt at unification
4. The road to war
Coda: the popular apocalyptic context
Part II. To Unite Against the Common Enemy: The 1654 Treaty of Westminster and the End of Apocalyptic Foreign Policy: 5. Historiographical overview
6. The causes of the war stated
7. Peace proposed
8. Political upheavals and ideological divisions
9. The rejection of apocalyptic foreign policy
10. The Protectorate's new foreign policy
Part III. Popery, Trade and Universal Monarchy: Ideology and the Outbreak of the Second Anglo-Dutch War: 11. Historiographical overview
12. The establishment of an Orangist foreign policy
13. The Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1662
14. The Northern Rebellion and the reestablishment of Anglican Royalist consensus
15. The April 1664 trade resolution
16. Popery, trade and universal monarchy
Part IV. The Medway, Breda and the Triple Alliance: The Collapse of Anglican Royalist Foreign Policy: 17. Historiographical overview
18. The circulation of news and the course of the war
19. The popular understanding of the war
20. The government's war aims
21. An Orangist revolution
22. Victory denied and wartime consensus shattered
23. The rise of political opposition
24. The road to Chatham: the decision not to send out a battle fleet
25. The demise of Anglican Royalist foreign policy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
