John Mcgurk

The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland

The 1590s crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the impact of the Nine Years' War on central and local government and society  in the English and Welsh shires in the 1590s. It contains fascinating new insights into the centrality of Ireland to England's problems in the crucial last decade of Elizabeth I's reign.However, this is in no sense a conventional military history, but rather a history of the social impact of the war and the strains it put upon the Elizabethan government. Based on painstaking primary research, it also covers the recruitment of levies for Ireland, their shipping, their service in Ireland and the limited extent of aftercare given to the sick and the wounded. The book therefore helps towards an understanding of why the Elizabethan conquest took so long to complete and why it proved to be more severe than at first intended.

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This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080517
• ISBN-10: 0719080517
• Artikelnr.: 27384441

Autorenporträt

John McGurk is Associate Professor at the University of Ulster

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part one: Men and
arms for the Nine Years' War 1. Background to the Nine Years' War 2. The
machinery for the Irish war 3. The demands of the war on the shires of
England and Wales 4. Military levies raised form Kent, 1594-1602 5. Levies
to Ireland from the maritime shires of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1594-1602
Part II: Embarkation and transportation of troops to the Irish war 6.
Chester, the chief military port for the Irish service in the 1590s 7.
Bristol, Barnstaple and other western ports in the service of the Irish war
Appendix: Ships in the service of the Irish war Part III: Elizabethan
military service in Ireland 8. The maintenance of the army 9. The
Elizabethan soldier at war 10. Casualties and welfare measures for the sick
and wounded of the Nine Years' war Conclusion Select bibliography Index