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A 10 page book review that contrasts and compares 2 texts. Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker in their text The Spanish Armada, which was published in 1999, and Garrett Mattingly in The Armada, which was first published in 1959, address the subject of the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Mattingly's text, which has since become a classic text in the historiography of the Armada, proposes that the previous scholarship overlooked the significance of competing worldviews in this landmark conflict. Mattingly feels that the struggle between England and Spain was not simply over who would rule the seas and the economic interests of the New World, but also that it was a battle of ideologies. While Martin and Parker largely support this interpretation and expand on it, they also address the significance of the economic factors referred to by Mattingly and add to this body of knowledge through their comprehensive research. No additional sources cited.
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in 1959, address the subject of the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Mattinglys text, which has since become a classic text in the historiography of the Armada,
proposes that the previous scholarship overlooked the significance of competing worldviews in this landmark conflict. Mattingly feels that the struggle between England and Spain was not simply over who would
rule the seas and the economic interests of the New World, but also that it was a battle of ideologies. While Martin and Parker largely support this interpretation and expand
on it, they also address the significance of the economic factors referred to by Mattingly and add to this body of knowledge through their comprehensive research. Mattinglys text Mattingly
explains in his preface that his purpose was to provide a general history of the Armada and not intended solely for a readership of historians. Therefore, he does not include
footnotes, but rather discusses the sources were used in a note sections that addresses each chapter. This feature necessarily reduces the value of his work for other historians. Nevertheless, his
text is clearly extensively researched. Mattingly states explicitly that he found "no startling fresh interpretation" but indicates that in reexamining "unpublished documents" and by reexamining previously published sources, he was
able to find data that yielded "new evidence," which weakened certain viewpoints while strengthening others.1 Mattingly, first of all, addresses issues of dating, noting that the Gregorian calendar came
into widespread use by 1587 everywhere in Europe except England.2 Mattingly uses the Gregorian calendar, rather than the English system of dating. Therefore, he refers to the first English engagement
with the Armada as occurring on July 31, 1588, rather than July 21, which is the date listed in English sources. He then briefly refers to details concerning ships and
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