UID:
almafu_9961565983002883
Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-429-46724-9
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0-429-88404-4
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0-429-88405-2
Content:
"European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European Navies have operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Chronological in structure, the book is the ideal resource for students and scholars of naval and military history"--
Note:
Includes index.
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European Navies and the Conduct of War- Front Cover; European Navies and the Conduct of War; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1: European navies and princely power; Navies in sixteenth-century Europe; Late medieval naval warfare; Navies and northern European monarchies; France and Spain; The Battle of Lepanto, 1571; The Spanish Armada and beyond; The Baltic; The Dutch struggle with Spain; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: The seventeenth century: a first age of modern naval warfare; Bourbon France.
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The first Anglo-Dutch war, 1652-1654The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars, 1665-1667 and 1672-1674; Colbert and the French navy; The French navy at war with Europe; The rise of Russian naval power; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 3: Globalisation and escalation, 1715-1815; Navies in a Europe of dynastic states; The Seven Years War, 1756-1763; The expansion of European navies; American Independence; The French Revolutionary wars, 1792-1802; Napoleonic wars, 1803-1815; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: The Vienna Settlement, 1815-1854; Maritime interests and the Congress system.
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Two new navies: Egypt and RussiaThe idea of a maritime coalition against a hegemon; Neutrality: the Declaration of Paris, 1856; Slave trade: the right of search controversy in the 1840s; Gunboat diplomacy and 'free trade'; The introduction of steam power; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 5: The collapse of the Congress System, 1854-1870; The Crimean War and its lessons; A period of French leadership; Innovation and escalation; The American Civil War and its legacy; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6: The age of empire, 1870-1914; Introduction; The decline of sea power after 1870.
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Causes and consequences of recoveryNavalism and the new navies; Strategy and politics; Naval development on the eve of World War One; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: World War One: blockade, neutrality, and the submarine; Blockade and counter blockade; The United States, neutrality, and freedom of the seas; The role of battle fleets; The 1917-1918 crisis and US belligerency; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 8: 1919-1939, a time of fractured peace; Notes; Chapter 9: European navies and the war at sea, 1939-1942; 1940; 1941; 1941-1942; Notes; Chapter 10: Redemption, 1943-1945; 1943; 1944; 1945; Notes.
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ConclusionNotes; Select bibliography; Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-67891-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-67890-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Naval history.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429467240
