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Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 book cover

1st Edition

Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815

Edited By J.D. Davies, Alan James, Gijs Rommelse Copyright 2020
346 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This ground-breaking book provides the first study of naval ideology, defined as the mass of cultural ideas and shared perspectives that, for early modern states and belief systems, justified the creation and use of naval forces. Sixteen scholars examine a wide range of themes over a wide time period and broad geographical range, embracing Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Sweden, Russia,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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