Флот / England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles

Название: England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles
Автор: David Cressy
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2020
Страниц: 423
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 78 MB

England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, military, religious, and administrative demands of the early modern state. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, Lundy, Holy Island and others emerge as important offshore outposts that long remained strange, separate, and perversely independent.