Ideologies of Western Naval Power, C. 1500-1815

ISBN-13: 9781032091679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 346 str.

J. D. Davies; Alan James; Gijs Rommelse

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.