'Greenspan is to be congratulated for adding considerably to our knowledge of media management in the seventeenth century.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'offers many new and fascinating insights into how the press functioned under Cromwell and how public opinion throughout the 1650s was cleverly shaped and manipulated based on existing and long-standing prejudices and attitudes' Parliamentary History

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Building the Commonwealth: Republicanism, Godly Government and the Media; Chapter 2 The 'Great Whore of Scotland': Newsbooks, Pamphlets and the Cromwellian Conquest; Chapter 3 Marketing Empire: The Western Design and Conquest of Jamaica; Chapter 4 The Anglo-Spanish War, Protestant Empire and the Media; Chapter 5 International News, Religious Conflict and Protestant Solidarity Under the Cromwellian Protectorate; conclusion Conclusion;