ENGLAND'S COLONIAL WARS 1550-1688
Modern Wars in Perspective
General Editors: H.M. Scott and B.W. Collins
This ambitious new series offers wide-ranging studies of specific wars, and distinct phases uf warfare, from the close of the Middle Ages to the present day. It aims to advance the current integration of military history into the academic mainstream. To that end, the books are not merely traditional campaign narratives, but examine the causes, course and consequences of major conflicts, in their full international political, social and ideological contexts.
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England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688
Conflicts, Empire and National Identity
Bruce P. Lenman
First published 2001
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Contents
Though the ultimate responsibility for what is in this book rests with the author, he must express his gratitude to people and institutions whose assistance was vital in bringing the major enterprise of which this volume is the first part to a conclusion. Andrew MacLennan, then of Addison Wesley Longman, was the editor who originally had the courage to commission a work so different and wider in scope than was normal for his 'Modern Wars in Perspective' series. It has taken so long to bring the commission to fruition that he has retired, in so far as so dynamic a man can. However, I remain proud to have been associated with someone who is by common consent one of the great creative Humanities editors of our time. I have also been grateful that within the wider embrace of Pearson Education I have experienced the efficient and amiable editorship of his worthy succes sor Heather McCallum. My academic editor and good colleague Professor Hamish Scott, has been a model of patience with a project which has been on my mind for over twenty years and which has taken over a decade to write. His constant generous assistance and unobtrusive suggestions have been indispensable. Dr Jane Dawson helped enormously by making avail able to me both her formidably precise scholarship and some of the ma terial on the evolution of the western Highlands in the sixteenth century which she has accumulated for her forthcoming important monograph on the evolution of Clan Campbell in the early-modern period.
Research of the kind embedded in this book is, of course, so heavily indebted to previous scholarship that adequate acknowledgement is in practical. Acknowledgements have perforce been selective. I can only apolo gise to the many others who might have been cited in more general terms. It is however appropriate to say that I am very conscious of what I owe to former colleagues in the College ofWilliam and Mary in Virginia especially those associated with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. In the Asian sphere, Dr Andrew Cook and Tony Farrington of the Oriental and India Office Collections in the British Library have done much to keep up my morale and guide my steps. The understanding support of my own Department of Modern History here in St Andrews has been matched by the generosity of the School of History with leave and grants for travel. By the excellence of the research atmosphere they con stantly uphold both have done much to compensate for the inevitable lone liness of one of the few early-modern imperial historians working in a Scottish, or for that matter a UK university. The current vitality of the field long ago ceased to be matched by the number of academic posts generating that vitality.
I recall writing the first pages of this book in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, another body to which I cannot repay my debts. This volume was largely completed in the library of the University of Emory. Along with the John Carter Brown Library and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, these American institutions combined with the National Library of Scotland and the British Library to give me the basic resources on which this sort of study must be based.
Finally it behoves me to express my deep gratitude to the kindness of two people. Nancy Bailey offered me much more than excellent editorial and secretarial services. She, her family, and indeed her extended family have done much to support me in recent very difficult years. Dr Julian Crowe, the best of all IT consultants, has over the years also shown me great kindness, not least in repeatedly saving me and other colleagues in the Faculty of Arts from the consequences of our own ignorance and ineptitude. I dedicate the book to Roderick, not because he will read it, but out of relief that he will be around to look at it.
Bruce Lenman
St Andrews
May 2000
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