Cromwell's Navy The Fleet and the English Revolution, 1648-1660 [Paperback]

In this book Capp explores the nature and role of the navy during the English Revolution. After the king's execution in 1649, the navy's leadership was drastically remodelled, with republican and Puritan outsiders being brought into key positions. Capp examines the fleet's part in the political history of the period, both domestic and international, and its intervention in the critical months before the Restoration. He also surveys the navy's social life--the characteristics of the officers and seamen, volunteers and the press gang, as well as the mental world of the seventeenth-century mariner.

1. Introduction
Part 1: The revolt of 1648
2. The Navy New-Modelled
3. Gunboat Diplomacy and War, 1652-1660
4. Politics and the Navy, 1649-1658
Part 2: Naval Officers: A Social Profile
5. The Floating Commonwealth
6. Manning the Fleet
7. Saints Afloat? Religion in the Fleet
Part 3: The Navy and the Restoration
8. The Legacy of the Commonwealth
9. Conclusion
Sources
Notes

A brilliant social history of Cromwell's navy....Capp brings to bear the light of a remarkably wide range of manuscript and printed sources. His book forms a much-needed complement to the more numerous studies of Cromwell's army. --Journal of Modern History

It is unusual to see such a variety of topics...included in a single study, and even more unusual to see all of them handled with such a sure touch. Capp's book is a welcome addition to Stuart historiography and should interest many readers. --Sixteenth Century Journal

Impressive....A lucidly-written, thoroughly-researched book on a subject of genuine importance, a work of lasting scholarly value. --Albion

Remarkable for the scope of its questions and conclusions. The book is a model for the way in which manuscript sources can be combined with a broad range of secondary works to produce al#E