Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe. By Geoffrey Parker. LONDON : 2002.

London: Allen Lane, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Large Octavo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 2002. Hardback. Illustrated; 19 illustrations (inc map). Dark-blue cloth; silver lettered spine. In dark-blue pictorial dust-jacket (not price-clipped). Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only; VERY GOOD INDEED in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. (xiv), 411 pages. Includes bibliographical references. Index. CONTENTS: David or Goliath? Philip II and His World in the -- I580s -- Of Providence and Protestant Winds: The Spanish Armada of I588 and the Dutch Armada of 1688 -- Treason and Plot in Elizabethan Diplomacy: The 'Fame of Sir Edward Stafford' Reconsidered -- Philip II, Maps and Power -- The Treaty of Lyon (1601) and the Spanish Road -- The Etiquette of Atrocity: The Laws of War in Early Modern Europe -- The 'Military Revolution' in Seventeenth-century Ireland -- The Artillery Fortress as an Engine of European Overseas Expansion, 1480-1750 -- Success and Failure during the First Century of the -- Reformation -- The 'Kirk by Law Established' and the 'Taming of Scotland': St Andrews, 1559-1600 -- Appendix: The Disciplinary Work of the St Andrews Kirk-session, 1573-1600. Lg. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping.**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]