- Hardcover: 466 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (31 Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198204434
- ISBN-13: 978-0198204435
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,966,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"With this book, R.B. Wernham brings to a close his monumental survey of Elizabethan foreign and military policy. Though it may be seen as a sequel to his earlier works, Before the Armada and After the Armada, it stands on its own as a coherent study of the last years of Elizabeth's war with Spain...Those who wish to know what the English were doing--and why they did it-- in these critical years will long be indebted to Wernham for bringing his great work to a satisfying conclusion."--Albion
Praise for the companion volume:
"To comprehend fully the achievement of Mr. Wernham in the research and the writing that went to produce this splendid book, one must work...on the period after 1596, when we no longer have his guidance...The sense of deprivation is severe, even alarming. One can only ask, selfishly, for more."--Penry Williams, English Historical Review
"With this volume, Wernham concludes his masterful series on Elizabethan foreign policy....Interesting for the genera
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The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not put an end to Spanish sea power, nor to Spain's ambitions in northern Europe. By the mid-1590s Spain had recovered from the disaster of 1588, and the renewed naval wars together with the outbreak of rebellion in Ireland from the principal themes of this book. R B Wernham sets out to examine these major events of the last years of the Queen Elizabeth's reign and to assess their impact on English policy. Professor Wernham shows how much of the impetus in foreign policy derived from the Earl of Essex, whose personal ambition and practical incompetence brought frustration and danger, and ultimately led him through rebellion to the Scaffold. It was left to Mountjoy in Ireland, to Leveson and a new generation of sea commanders, and above all to Robert Cecil, to bring war and rebellion to a reasonably satisfactory conclusion. The Return of the Armadas is a superbly integrated and lucidly written study in grand strategy by a leading historian of Elizabethan affairs.
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