Delivered as the Ford Lectures at Oxford in 1910, these six chapters trace the half-century before the Dutch Wars, decade by decade from 1600 to 1653. Edmundson follows the quarrels over fisheries, the East Indies trade and sovereignty of the seas, through the reigns of James I and Charles I to the Commonwealth’s first open war.
A clear diplomatic and commercial prelude to the naval wars of Tromp and Blake, written by a leading historian of the Netherlands. Download the free EPUB.