Strategy and the sea : essays in honour of John B. Hattendorf / edited by N.A.M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell and Evan Wilson.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations

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Available Online

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Summary note
An important book, presenting the latest insights by the leading world authorities on naval history.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 3, 2016).
Contents
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; John B. Hattendorf
  • A Transatlantic Tribute; Introduction; 1. Spanish Noblemen as Galley Captains: A Problematical Social History; 2. Strategy Seen from the Quarterdeck in the Eighteenth-Century French Navy; 3. Danish and Swedish Flag Disputes with the British in the Channel; 4. Reconsidering the Guerre de Course under Louis XIV: Naval Policy and Strategic Downsizing in an Era of Fiscal Overextension; 5. British Naval Administration and the Lower Deck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century.
  • 6. British Naval Administration and the Quarterdeck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century7. The Raison d'Être and the Actual Employment of the Dutch Navy in Early Modern Times; 8. British Defensive Strategy at Sea in the War against Napoleon; 9. The Offensive Strategy of the Spanish Navy, 1763-1808; 10. The Influence of Sea Power upon Three Great Global Wars, 1793-1815, 1914-1918, 1939-1945: A Comparative Analysis; 11. The Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battlecruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War.
  • 12. The Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-194113. The Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and his Admirals, 1939-1944; 14. The Capital Ship, the Royal Navy and British Strategy from the Second World War to the 1950s; 15. 'No Scope for Arms Control': Strategy, Geography and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s; 16. Sir Julian Corbett, Naval History and the Development of Sea Power Theory; 17. The Influence of Identity on Sea Power.
  • 18. Professor Spenser Wilkinson, Admiral William Sims and the Teaching of Strategy and Sea Power at the University of Oxford and the United States Naval War College, 1909-192719. Naval Intellectualism and the Imperial Japanese Navy; 20. History and Navies: Defining a Dialogue; 21. Teaching Navies Their History; Afterword; A Bibliography of Books, Articles and Reviews Authored, Co-authored, Edited or Co-edited by John B. Hattendorf, 1960-2015; Index; Tabula Gratulatoria.
ISBN
  • 9781782047018 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1782047018 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
947836898
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