English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature
This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship. |
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Contents
HMS VICTORY | 176 |
The Nelson Decade | 177 |
B William Bligh | 178 |
The Mutiny | 181 |
HM Bark BOUNTY | 183 |
Literature and Assessments | 184 |
Other Personalities Officers | 185 |
A The Profession of Naval Officer | 186 |
B AngloSaxon England | 67 |
The Isles | 76 |
F The 16th Century | 88 |
AngloSpanish Relations | 91 |
War | 94 |
The Armada Nautical Archaeology | 99 |
The Armada Off Scotland and Ireland | 100 |
The Armada Literature and Anniversaries | 101 |
After the Armada | 104 |
G The 17th Century | 105 |
The Rise of Maritime Hegemony | 107 |
The Thirty Years War | 109 |
In the Mediterranean Sea | 111 |
The AngloDutch Wars | 113 |
The Navy and the Restoration | 117 |
The Navy and the Revolution of 1688 | 119 |
Tsar Peter the Great | 120 |
The Wars of King Louis XIV | 121 |
H The 18th Century | 123 |
The War of Jenkinss Ear | 124 |
The War of Austrian Succession | 126 |
The Seven Years War | 127 |
The War of the American Revolution | 131 |
The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon | 135 |
The Glorious First of June | 138 |
The Blockade of Brest | 139 |
The Battle of Cape St Vincent | 140 |
The Egyptian Campaign | 141 |
The Battle of the Nile | 142 |
The Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807 | 143 |
The Campaign of Trafalgar | 144 |
The Battle of Trafalgar | 145 |
The Treaty of Tilsit of 1807 and the Continental System | 147 |
The War of 1812 | 149 |
The War on the Lakes | 153 |
Napoleon Bonaparte and Exile | 154 |
Lord Cochrane and South America | 157 |
Special Emphasis | 159 |
Operations and Naval Career | 169 |
Letters Journals Literature Art and Assessments | 170 |
The Funeral and Memorials | 171 |
The Women | 174 |
B Listing the Greats | 187 |
The Role of the Monarchy | 189 |
Prominent Personalities | 190 |
Walter Raleigh | 194 |
The Hawkins Family | 196 |
George Monck | 197 |
George Anson | 198 |
Edward Hawke | 199 |
Richard Howe | 200 |
William Sydney Smith | 201 |
Thomas Cochrane Tenth Earl of Dundonald | 202 |
E Miscellaneous | 204 |
The Lower Deck | 215 |
A Social Histories of the Lower Deck | 216 |
B Individual Accounts of Life on the Lower Deck | 219 |
Recruitment Manning and Impressment | 221 |
Warships | 235 |
A Privateers | 248 |
B The Military Revolution | 261 |
H Logistics Victualling and the Transport Service | 274 |
The Dockyards | 275 |
The Law of the Sea Admiralty Courts and the Prize Process | 281 |
Strategy Tactics Communications Intelligence and Amphibious | 287 |
Invasion | 293 |
Exploration Discovery Navigation Cartography and Science | 301 |
E Joseph Banks | 307 |
The Northwest Passage | 314 |
N The Weather | 321 |
S George Vancouver and Matthew Flinders | 325 |
Nautical Archaeology | 331 |
E Towns and Nautical Archaeology | 337 |
Nautical Fiction | 343 |
Other Nelson Surrogates | 350 |
Music | 356 |
DESCRIPTIVE LISTS | 365 |
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 375 |
Fulltime Professional Historians | 381 |
Annotated Entries | 383 |
Appendixes | 799 |
AuthorPerson Index | 813 |
Subject Index | 857 |
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Popular passages
Page 467 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 288 - ... whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Page 399 - Memoirs of the Naval Worthies of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, their Gallant Deeds, Daring Adventures and Services in the infant state of the British Navy, with brief Biographical Notices of the respective Commanders.
Page 288 - Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Bibliographic information
| Title | English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature Issue 15 of Bibliographies and indexes in military studies, ISSN 1040-7995 |
| Author | Eugene L. Rasor |
| Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0313305471, 9780313305474 |
| Length | 875 pages |
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