Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J.D. Davies, Alan James, Gijs Rommelse.
• Editors: Davies, J. D; James, Alan; Rommelse, Gijs
• Contents: Introduction: The Ghost at the Banquet: Navies, Ideologies, and the Writing of History J.D. Davies, Alan James and Gijs Rommelse Section One: Navies and National Identities 1. Groom of the Sea: Venetian Sovereignty Between Power and Myth Luciano Pezzolo 2. National Flags as Essential Elements of Dutch Naval Ideology, 1570-1800 Gijs Rommelse 3. Towards a Scientific Navy: Institutional Identity and Spain’s Eighteenth-Century Navy Catherine Scheybeler 4. The French Navy from Louis XV to Napoleon I: What Role and by What Means? Patrick Villiers Section Two: Monarchical Projects 5. Fleets and States in a Composite Catholic Monarchy: Spain c. 1500-1700 Christopher Storrs 6. "Great Neptunes of the Main": Myths, Mangled Histories, and "Maritime Monarchy" in the Stuart Navy, 1603-1714 J.D. Davies 7. Colbert and La Royale : Dynastic Ambitions and Imperial Ideals in France Alan James Section Three: Communities of Violence 8. Corsairs in Tunis from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries: A Matter of Religion and Economics Sadok Boubaker 9. Transnational Calvinist Cooperation and "Mastery of the Sea" in the Late Sixteenth Century D.J.B. Trim 10. Shadow States and Ungovernable Ships: The Ideology of Early Modern Piracy Claire Jowitt 11. Greeks into Privateers: Law and Language of Commerce Raiding Under the Imperial Russian Flag, 1760s-1790s Julia Leikin Section Four: Constructing Strategies 12. Kingship, Religion and History: Swedish Naval Ideology, 1500-1830 Lars Ericson Wolke 13. Neutrality at Sea: Scandinavian Responses to ‘Great Power’ Maritime Warfare, 1651-1713 Steve Murdoch 14. Naval Ideology and Its Operational Impact in Eighteenth Century Britain Richard Harding 15. Debating the Purpose of a Navy in a New Republic: The United States of America, 1775-1815 John B. Hattendorf Section Five: Afterword Afterword Andrew Lambert
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (338 pages), (18 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000074994; 1000074994
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