Protestantism and Patriotism
Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668

A detailed study of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars and the ideological contexts in which they were fought.

Steven C. A. Pincus (Author)

9780521434874, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 May 1996

524 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.94 kg

'… an extraordinarily learned and sophisticated book … a powerful and original contribution to the history of both the 1650s and 1660s.' English Historical Review

Protestantism and Patriotism offers a fundamental reinterpretation of English political culture between 1650 and 1668. It is also both the most detailed study to date of the causes and consequences of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652–1654 and 1665–1667), and a configuration of the English political nation which engaged in those two conflicts. Professor Pincus argues that it is impossible to understand the making of English foreign policy in this period without a careful study of its ideological contexts, while at the same time suggesting that accounts of English domestic politics which ignore the ideological implications of England's place in European political culture are impoverished. Because of the broad context in which the Anglo-Dutch Wars are situated, the book will appeal not only to specialists in English foreign policy but to all those interested in seventeenth-century English and Dutch politics and culture.

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.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]