England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688 Conflicts, Empire and National Identity

'both books deserve attention, not least because they bring military history back into the mainstream and demonstrate the centrality of conquest to the development of western Europe...' Trevor Royle, Sunday Herald 'vigorously inconoclastic...It is hard to imagine any reader who will not find his or her views challenged by Lenman's robust and splendidly unpredictable views' Professor Peter Marshall, Reviews in History 'Lenman has not only written an excellent survey of eighteenth century colonial wars, he has shown how this subject can be tackled' George Boyce, University of Wales, UK