Title: Protestantism and Patriotism
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.
Subjects: History, Protestant churches, Foreign relations, Protestantism, Patriotism, Christianity and politics, Engels-Nederlandse oorlogen, Protestantisme, Buitenlandse politiek, Diplomatic relations, Great britain, foreign relations, Great britain, politics and government, 1603-1714
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: 17th century, 1660-1688, 1649-1660