Conviction on the High Seas
Blair Worden, 6 February 1997
Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy 1650-68
by Steven Pincus.
Cambridge, 506 pp., £45, May 1996,0 521 43487 4 Show More
by Steven Pincus.
Cambridge, 506 pp., £45, May 1996,
“... that the two new republics, both of them imperilled by the great Catholic monarchies of Spain and France, should make common cause? Early in 1651 an English embassy to the Hague seemed likely to seal such an alliance. Yet the negotiations ended in acrimony, and the following year the two republics went to war. Since that war seems to make neither religious ... ”