Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supr…

- Peter Padfield

The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of …

- Peter Padfield

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15…

- Peter Padfield

It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to G…

- Peter Padfield

Philip could not have wanted to annex England militarily, since this would have opened another costly occupation struggle, and brought France in agai…

- Peter Padfield