This book analyses the methods used for the procurement, storage and supply of arms and armaments for the English military establishment during the period of hostilities with Spain in the late sixteenth century and the following period of peace until the renewal of the war in 1625. The Ordnance Office -with power based on individual prestige, riddled with inefficiency, and slow to change its procedures -provides an excellent case study of an early modern bureaucracy in a transitional period between the personal and household offices of the crown and the growth of modern concepts of civil service based on merit. This book was awarded the 1997 Templar Medal for the best contributionto Army Historical Research. Dr RICHARD W. STEWARTis Director of History and Museums for the US Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg.
- ISBN10 0861932331
- ISBN13 9780861932337
- Publish Date 9 May 1996
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Royal Historical Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 193
- Language English