Table of Contents

I. A Military Apprenticeship 1585-1640
1: The Irish Wars
2: The Low Countries Wars
3: British Manpower and the States' Army
4: Recruiting in the British Isles for Mainland European Armies
5: Military and Naval Expeditions of the 1620s
6: The campus martius: The Domestic School of War
II. The Experience of Civil War 1640-1660
7: Mercenaries and Gentlemen
8: Raising and Organizing Standing Armies
9: Atrocity, Plunder, and Discipline
10: The Civil Wars in Ireland and Scotland
III. The Decay of a Military Tradition 1660-1688
11: Standing Armies in the Three Kingdoms
12: The Decay of the Militia
13: English, Irish, and Scots in Mainland European Armies
IV. The Recovery of a Military Tradition 1688-1702
14: The Descent on England
15: The Williamite Conquest of Scotland and Ireland
16: The Nine Years War
17: Conclusion: Military Professionalism
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Reviews

Manning brings together a wealth of material ... and by adopting a broad framework offers a useful synthesis of a literature that has developed considerably during the past thirty years. John Childs, TLS A valuable study of the days of the formation of a Standing Army. The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, Volume 57, Number 225