English/British naval history to 1815 : a guide to the literature / Eugene L. Rasor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasor, Eugene L., 1936-

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Bibliographies and indexes in military studies ; 1040-7995 no. 15.

Bibliographies and indexes in military studies, 1040-7995 ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval art and science.

Naval history.

Great Britain--History, Naval--Bibliography.

Great Britain.

Naval art and science--Great Britain--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 875 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Historiographical Narrative

A Historical Background and Overview 2

Chapter 2 Purpose, Scope, Format, and Features 9

D Cross Referencing and Indexes 12

E Limitations 13

F Features 14

Chapter 3 General References 15

B Naval Encyclopedias 18

C Naval Biographies 19

E Statistics 20

F Dissertations and Theses 20

Chapter 4 Resource Centers 23

A Official Archives and Depositories 23

1 The Public Record Office 24

2 The British Library 24

3 The National Archives of the United States and the Library of Congress 24

4 Institutions of Higher Education 25

B Libraries 25

C Museums 27

1 The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 27

2 The Royal Naval Museum 28

3 Other Maritime Museums 28

D Institutions, Organizations, Associations, and Societies 29

1 The Navy Records Society 29

2 The Society for Nautical Research 30

3 Other Associations 31

E Conferences and Symposia 32

1 Naval History Symposium 33

2 Anglo-French Naval History Conferences 35

3 Anglo-Dutch Maritime History Conferences 36

4 Others 36

5 Exhibitions 36

6 Festschrift 37

F Journals and Periodicals 37

Chapter 5 Naval Writers and Historians 41

A The Proto-Naval Historians 42

B The Earliest Quasi-Professionals 42

1 Julian Stafford Corbett 43

2 Alfred Thayer Mahan 43

3 Herbert Richmond 44

4 C. Northcote Parkinson 44

C Professors as Historians 44

D Full-time Professional Historians 45

E The Current Leaders 45

F The Next Generation 46

G Other Naval Historians 46

H Writing Naval History 47

Chapter 6 Histories of the English/British Navy 49

A When and Who? 49

B The Preeminent Histories 50

C The Earliest Histories of the English/British Navy 52

D English/British Naval Histories of the Twentieth Century 53

E Illustrated Histories 55

F The Great Battles Approach 55

G General Naval Histories 56

H The Age of Fighting Sail 57

I The Navy, Empire, Europe, and European Hegemony 58

J The Sea, the Ocean, Seafarers, and Regions 59

K Other English/British and Foreign Forces 60

L Pertinent General Histories 61

M The State of English/British Naval History 62

Chapter 7 Chronological Periods: Naval Wars and Prominent Battles 65

A Roman Britain 66

1 Julius Caesar 66

2 Invasion 66

B Anglo-Saxon England 67

1 King Alfred 68

2 The Vikings 69

C Norman England 70

1 William the Conqueror, the Conquest 70

2 Richard I, the Crusades 72

3 The Cinque Ports 73

4 Treaties and Expansion 74

D The Isles 76

1 Dalriada 76

2 Ireland 77

3 Scotland 77

4 Wales 78

E The Middle Ages 79

1 Why Europe; Why England/Britain? 79

2 Italy 79

3 Portugal 81

4 In the Baltic Sea 82

5 Gascony 84

6 Bristol 84

7 The Hundred Years' War 85

F The 16th Century 88

1 The Tudor Navy 88

2 Anglo-Spanish Relations 91

3 War 94

4 The Armada 94

5 The Armada - Nautical Archaeology 99

6 The Armada - Off Scotland and Ireland 100

7 The Armada - Literature and Anniversaries 101

8 After the Armada 104

G The 17th Century 105

1 The Navy of the Early Stuarts 105

2 The Rise of Maritime Hegemony 107

3 The Thirty Years' War 109

4 The Navy and the Civil War 109

5 In the Mediterranean Sea 111

6 The Anglo-Dutch Wars 113

7 The Navy and the Restoration 117

8 The Navy and the Revolution of 1688 119

9 Tsar Peter the Great 120

10 The Wars of King Louis XIV 121

H The 18th Century 123

1 The War of Spanish Succession 123

2 The War of Jenkins's Ear 124

3 The War of Austrian Succession 126

4 The Seven Years' War 127

5 The War of the American Revolution 131

I The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon 135

1 The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon 135

2 The Glorious First of June 138

3 The Battle of Camperdown 138

4 The Blockade of Brest 139

5 Nelson's Navy 139

6 The Battle of Cape St. Vincent 140

7 The Egyptian Campaign 141

8 The Battle of the Nile 142

9 The Battles of Copenhagen, 1801 and 1807 143

10 The Campaign of Trafalgar 144

11 The Battle of Trafalgar 145

12 The Treaty of Tilsit of 1807 and the Continental System 147

13 The Peninsular Campaign and After 147

14 The War of 1812 149

15 The War on the Lakes 153

16 Napoleon Bonaparte and Exile 154

17 Lord Cochrane and South America 157

Chapter 8 Special Emphasis 159

A Horatio Nelson 159

1 Biographies and Studies 159

2 Operations and Naval Career 169

3 Letters, Journals, Literature, Art, and Assessments 170

4 The Funeral and Memorials 171

5 The Women 174

6 HMS VICTORY 176

7 The Nelson Decade 177

B William Bligh 178

1 Biographies and Studies 178

2 The Mutiny 181

3 HM Bark BOUNTY 183

4 Literature and Assessments 184

Chapter 9 Other Personalities - Officers 185

A The Profession of Naval Officer 186

B Listing the Greats 187

C The Role of the Monarchy 189

D Prominent Personalities 190

1 Francis Drake 190

2 Walter Raleigh 194

3 The Hawkins Family 196

4 Robert Blake 196

5 George Monck 197

6 William Dampier 197

7 George Anson 198

8 Edward Vernon 198

9 Edward Hawke 199

10 George Rodney 199

11 Richard Howe 200

12 John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent 200

13 William Sydney Smith 201

14 Cuthbert Collingwood 201

15 Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald 202

16 Samuel Pepys 202

Chapter 10 Human Resources: The Lower Deck 215

A Social Histories of the Lower Deck 216

B Individual Accounts of Life on the Lower Deck 219

C Recruitment, Manning, and Impressment 221

D Impressment and the War of 1812 224

E Health Factors, Scurvy, and Environmental Conditions 224

F Victualling, Uniforms, and Wages 226

G Discipline and Punishment 227

H The Role of Women 229

I Sexuality and Homosexuality 230

J Mutiny 230

Chapter 11 Warships 235

A General Surveys 235

B Navy Lists 237

C Individual Ships and Ship Types 238

D Galleys, Gallasses, and Galleons 241

E The Ship of the Line 243

F Frigates 244

G Shipbuilding and Ship Models 245

Chapter 12 Piracy, Plunder, and Privateering 247

A Privateers 248

B France and guerre de course 250

C Piracy 251

D Smuggling and Piracy in England 253

E The Caribbean and Piracy 255

F Barbary Corsairs 256

Chapter 13 The Navy, State-Building, and the Military Revolution 259

A The Navy and the Rise of the Nation State 259

B The Military Revolution 261

Chapter 14 Administration, Logistics, Victualling, Shipbuilding, Dockyards, and Naval Ports 263

A The Admiralty 264

B Administration 264

C Administrators 267

D Shipbuilding, Naval Architecture, and Naval Architects 269

E Technological Advances 270

F Timber and the Wooden Walls 271

G The Ordnance Office and Naval Gunnery 272

H Logistics, Victualling, and the Transport Service 274

I The Dockyards 275

J Naval Ports and Bases 277

K Patronage, "Interest," and Corruption 278

Chapter 15 The Law of the Sea, Admiralty Courts, and the Prize Process 281

A The Law of the Sea 281

B Courts of the Admiralty 281

C The Prize Process 283

D Naval Regulations, Discipline, and Courts Martial 284

Chapter 16 Strategy, Tactics, Communications, Intelligence, and Amphibious Operations 287

A Sea Power 287

B Naval Strategy 289

C Naval Tactics 292

D A Perennial Fear: Invasion 293

E Trade, Defense of Commerce, and Imperial Defense 295

F Maritime Insurance 295

G Communications 296

H Intelligence 296

I Amphibious Warfare 298

Chapter 17 Exploration, Discovery, Navigation, Cartography, and Science 301

A The Hakluyt Society 302

B James Cook 303

C The Ships of the Cook Voyages 305

D The Journals of the Voyages 306

E Joseph Banks 307

F The Age of Discovery 308

G The Enlightenment, Myths, and Apotheosis 308

H Exploration and Discovery: The Atlantic Ocean 310

I The Northwest Passage 314

J Exploration and Discovery: The Pacific Ocean 315

K The Science of Navigation 317

L Trinity House 319

M Time and the Search for Longitude 319

N The Weather 321

O Greenwich 321

P The Astronomer Royal 322

Q Hydrography 323

R Cartography 323

S George Vancouver and Matthew Flinders 325

T John Barrow 326

U Charles Darwin and the BEAGLE 327

V Australia and New Zealand 327

W Convict Voyages and Penal Colonies 328

Chapter 18 Nautical Archaeology 331

A Nautical Archaeology 332

B Sutton Hoo Ship Burial 335

C Mary Rose 336

D Wrecks of the Spanish Armada 336

E Towns and Nautical Archaeology 337

F VASA 337

Chapter 19 Nautical Dictionaries 339

Chapter 20 Nautical Fiction 343

A Nautical Fiction 343

B Patrick O'Brian 347

C C.S. Forester 348

D Other Nelson Surrogates 350

E Other Nautical Fiction 350

F American Nautical Fiction 351

Chapter 21 Art, Literary Products, the Media, and Cyberspace 353

A Art and Design 353

B Tapestries 355

1 The Bayeux Tapestry 355

C Literature 355

D Music 356

E Ceremony 356

F The Internet 357

Chapter 22 Gaps and Research Needed 359

Part II Descriptive Lists 365

a Journals and Periodicals 365

b Associations and Societies 367

c Museums 368

d Publishers and Publication Series 369

e Replicas 371

f Monuments and Memorials 371

g Lectures and Awards 372

h Fictional Heroes of the Nelson Era 373

I List of Pertinent Masters Theses 799

II List of Publications of the Navy Records Society 803.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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9780313073113

0313073112

Publisher Number:

99990106496

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