Strategy and the sea : essays in honour of John B. Hattendorf /: essays in honour of John B. Hattendorf. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by N.A.M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell and Evan Wilson.
• Editors: Rodger, N. A. M, 1949-; Dancy, J. Ross; Darnell, Benjamin; Wilson, Evan, 1984-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 359.4; Naval strategy; Sea-power; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science; HISTORY -- Military -- Naval; Naval strategy; Sea-power; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782047018; 1782047018
• Related ISBNs: 9781783270989; 1783270985
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 3, 2016).
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