アルマダの海戦の再考 : 「新船舶税」導入問題の分析を中心として

The rethinking of the War against Spanish Armada

INAI Taro

西洋史学報

Seiyoshi-Gakuho : Review of Western History

[PISSN] 0386-9474

[NCID] AN00130218

The war with the Spanish Armada has long been evaluated as the important watershed in British history. It is said that the victory not only encouraged to build the British empire, but also awaked the nationalism or Englishness in England.
This article attempts to rethink the traditional evaluation in the view of the financial and naval problem. After 1588, the costs of the navy increased so rapidly and heavily to convoy the merchant ships and to defense the coastal area. So the government attempted to augment the revenue of the old ship money to levy the ships and furnish them with arms. The important change of this policy was that the incidence of the ship money was extended from the coastal towns and areas to the inland. In 1603 the government finally planed to impose the ship money in the entire area of England. It was in fact the new ship money and the historical precedent of one in Charles I's period because it requested not to levy the ships but
to collect the money only.
The consolidation of the ship money is one of the reasons why the despute occured between the central government and the country in England. In conclusion, the later Elizabethan period was never the golden age when the people in England made aware of their future, British empire and Englishness

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