Queen Elizabeth and the Myth of Sea-Power in English History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N A M Rodger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Pages | 153-174 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0080440104000180 |
| OpenAlex | W2160444594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This paper identifies an English ‘national myth’ of sea-power, based on the folk-memory of the Elizabethan naval war, which powerfully shaped public attitudes and political choices throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This myth associated true, patriotic and ever-victorious English sea-power with political liberty, financial profit and, above all, Protestantism. The public judged successive governments on their willingness and ability to realise this programme. Most of them failed on one or both counts, until the elder Pitt made the myth work, and the French revolutionaries changed the rules
Art · Biology · Mythology · Physics · Power (physics · Queen (butterfly · Thermodynamics · Zoology · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |