{"product_id":"no-standing-armies-9781421432199","title":"No Standing Armies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1974. In her study of primary materials in England and the United States, Schwoerer traces the origin, development, and articulation in both Parliament and in the popular press of the attitude opposing standing armies in seventeenth-century England and the American colonies. Central to the criticism of armies at that time was the conviction that ultimate military power should be vested in Parliament, not the Crown. Schwoerer shows how the many diverse elements of England's antimilitarism, including political principle, propaganda, parliamentary tactics, parochialism, and partisanship, hardened with every confrontation between the Crown or Protector and Parliament. The author finds a general predisposition to distrust professional soldiers early in the century, and from the 1620s onward she notes opposition to a standing army in times of peace. Highlighting the growth of the antimilitary tradition, Schwoerer traces the development of this attitude from the Petiti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Origin of the English Antimilitary Attitude\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Petition of Right of 1628: The Antimilitary Sentiment Hardens\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Theory of Parliamentary Command of the Militia: 1641 - 1642\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The New Model Army Criticized: 1647 - 1660\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Military Settlement at the Restoration: 1660 - 1667\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Principle and Propaganda in the 1670s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Standing Armies: 1685 - 1689\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Climax of the Standing Army Issue in Parliament and Press: 1697 - 1699\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Conclusion: Eighteenth-Century Echoes\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Note\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408131793239,"sku":"9781421432199","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421432199.jpg?v=1730501700","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-standing-armies-9781421432199","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}