Historiography, The Spanish Armada

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An 8 page history paper that reviews 2 books. Garrett Mattingly, in his text The Armada, which was first published in 1959, presents a landmark text that has become a classic in the historiography of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English, which occurred during the reign of Elizabeth I in 1588. In 1999, historians Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker in their text The Spanish Armada built on Mattingly’s insightful observations, substantiating many of his insights and also offering their own insights, gleaned from systematic primary Spanish sources, which have been an underutilized resource in this area of historical focus. This comparison of these two books offers summary, critique and discussion of the considerable contributions of both of these texts to historiography on the defeat of the Spanish Armada. No additional sources cited.