Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Davies, J. D.; Rommelse, Gijs; James, Alan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first study of naval ideologies, the complex beliefs and mindsets that justified the creation and use of naval forces during the early modern period. It examines a wide range of themes, providing important new insights for those studying, or interested in, naval history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000065497
• Artikelnr.: 57070764

Autorenporträt

J.D. Davies is a Vice-President of the Society for Nautical Research and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Alan James is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at King's College London. Gijs Rommelse is Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ghost at the Banquet: Navies, Ideologies, and the Writing
of History Section One: Navies and National Identities 1. Groom of the Sea:
Venetian Sovereignty Between Power and Myth 2. National Flags as Essential
Elements of Dutch Naval Ideology, 1570-1800 3. Towards a Scientific Navy:
Institutional Identity and Spain's Eighteenth-Century Navy 4. The French
Navy from Louis XV to Napoleon I: What Role and by What Means? Section Two:
Monarchical Projects 5. Fleets and States in a Composite Catholic Monarchy:
Spain c. 1500-1700 6. "Great Neptunes of the Main": Myths, Mangled
Histories, and "Maritime Monarchy" in the Stuart Navy, 1603-1714 7. Colbert
and La Royale: Dynastic Ambitions and Imperial Ideals in France Section
Three: Communities of Violence 8. Corsairs in Tunis from the Sixteenth to
Nineteenth Centuries: A Matter of Religion and Economics 9. Transnational
Calvinist Cooperation and "Mastery of the Sea" in the Late Sixteenth
Century 10. Shadow States and Ungovernable Ships: The Ideology of Early
Modern Piracy 11. Greeks into Privateers: Law and Language of Commerce
Raiding Under the Imperial Russian Flag, 1760s-1790s Section Four:
Constructing Strategies 12. Kingship, Religion and History: Swedish Naval
Ideology, 1500-1830 13. Neutrality at Sea: Scandinavian Responses to 'Great
Power' Maritime Warfare, 1651-1713 14. Naval Ideology and Its Operational
Impact in Eighteenth Century Britain 15. Debating the Purpose of a Navy in
a New Republic: The United States of America, 1775-1815 Section Five:
Afterword. Afterword