Cromwell's Navy. The Fleet And The English Revolution, 1648-1660

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1989
Edition: First Edition

Description: 420 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this book Capp explores the nature and role of the navy during the English Revolution. After the kings execution in 1649, the navys leadership was drastically remodelled, with republican and Puritan outsiders being brought into key positions. Capp examines the fleets part in the political history of the period, both domestic and international, and its intervention in the critical months before the Restoration. He also surveys the navys social life--the characteristics of the officers and seamen, volunteers and the press gang, as well as the mental world of the seventeenth-century mariner.

ISBN: 9780198201151