Protestantism and patriotism
Subtitle: ideologies and the making of English foreign policy, 1650-1668
By: Steven C.A. Pincus.
Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Christianity and politics -- Protestant churches -- History -- 17th century.; Protestant churches -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Patriotism -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Protestantism.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1649-1660.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1660-1688.
Description: 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 reconfiguration 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-485) and index.