Download or read book English Warfare, 1511-1642 written by Mark Charles Fissel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of a period of warfare much overshadowed by the Civil War, which reveals why, in spite of the absolutist pretensions of the monarchy, a militarist state failed to develop in the 84 years before Edgehill.