ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE MODERN ROYAL NAVY INCLUDING THE FLEET AIRARM & MARINES PPD

The “Encyclopedia of the Modern Royal Navy Including the Fleet Air Arm & Marines” by Paul Beaver is a comprehensive historical textbook that delves into the history of the Royal Navy in modern times. This hardcover book, originally published in English by Naval Institute Press in 1983, covers various subjects related to the navy, fleet air arm, and marines. With 320 pages, this first edition textbook provides detailed insights into the naval history of Great Britain and is a valuable resource for those interested in military history and the modern Royal Navy.

Divided Kingdom

For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy, then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of multi-sided conflict. The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.