Download or read book Anglo French Naval Rivalry 1840 1870 written by C. I. Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.I. Hamilton traces the technological development of the British and French navies and analyzes the political and diplomatic policies which formed the backdrop to the naval history of the period 1840-1870. Hamilton compares the two navies in a variety of important ways: their recruitment and training systems, dockyard facilities, naval administrations, and strategy and tactics. This book makes a noteworthy contribution both to naval history and to our knowledge of Anglo-French relations in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Anglo French Naval Rivalry 1815 1848 written by John William McCleary and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo French Naval Rivalry 1845 1861 written by John William McCleary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Channel Islands in Anglo French Relations 1689 1918 written by Colin Partridge and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and Anglo-French diplomacy, but this has not always been highlighted sufficiently even though Britain and France were at war for most of the period 1689-1815. This book considers a wide range of maritime subjects where the role of the Channel Islands has been significant, such as intelligence gathering, piracy and privateering, and naval strategy and control of the Channel. It also examines topics in relation to the Channel Islands specifically, such as surveying and hydrography, fortifications, trade and Channel Islands societies. It charts changes over time, including the impact of technological changes, from the wars of Louis XIV and William III, through the many Anglo-French wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and includes planning for wars which were anticipated but avoided. Throughout the issues are discussed from the perspectives of Britain, France and the Channel Islands themselves, equal weight being given to all three perspectives. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Colin Partridge is a former consultant to the States of Guernsey's 'Fortress Guernsey' programme for the restoration and interpretation of Guernsey's fortifications. Jean de Préneuf is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille and Head of the Research, Teaching and Studies Unit at the Historical Branch of the French Ministry of Defence at Vincennes.
Download or read book British and French Naval Rivalry 1750 1805 written by James F. Creswell and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Naval Policy in the Gladstone Disraeli Era 1866 1880 written by John Francis Beeler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a background of rapid industrialization and economic transformation, the author describes the structure of British naval administration in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, assesses the important reforms of that structure by the Liberal politician Hugh Childers, and examines the strategic and operational contexts of the navy itself.
Download or read book Imperial Defence 1868 1887 written by Donald MacKenzie Schurman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling stations and a greater infrastructure.
Download or read book Queen Victoria s Wars written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in the dense forests, and along the coast, it discusses wars waged in China, Burma, Afghanistan, and India/Pakistan; New Zealand; and, West, East, and South Africa. Leading military historians from around the world situate the individual conflict in the larger context of British domestic history and British foreign policy/grand strategy and examine the background of the conflict, the war aims, the outbreak of the war, the forces and technology employed, a narrative of the war, details about one specific battle, and the aftermath of the war. Beginning with the Indian Rebellion and ending with the South African War, it enables readers to see the global impact of British imperialism, the function of the army in the service of British political goals, and the evolution of military technology.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing written by Kelly Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.
Download or read book Maritime Fiction written by J. Peck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilised values of those who remain on the shore. The first comprehensive discussion of its subject, Maritime Fiction is an original exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea.
Download or read book Navies in Northern Waters written by Rolf Hobson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navies in Northern Waters is a collection of articles covering the roles played by the secondary navies of northern European powers and the United States within the maritime balance of power. The contributions covering the 18th and 19th centuries focus on their relations with each other as they sought to create a counterweight to the dominant naval power of Britain. The inter-war years are treated from the perspectives of international disarmament efforts within the framework of collective security, and the subsequent naval rivalry in the Baltic area in the years leading up to the Second World War. For the post-1945 period, the contributions concentrate on superpower rivalry in northern waters during the Cold War, the changing aspects of security policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the particular challenges facing small coastal states policing extensive waters of increasing economic importance.
Download or read book The Direction of War written by Hew Strachan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to our understanding of contemporary warfare and strategy by one of the world's leading military historians.
Download or read book The Development of British Naval Thinking written by Geoffrey Till and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Britain's leading naval historians and analysts have come together to produce an investigation of the development of British naval thinking over the past three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the present day.
Download or read book Understanding the British Empire written by Ronald Hyam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History written by Matthew Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise and accessible introduction to modern military history. The collection is a clear and up to date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history. Each chapter is supported by notes and a brief bibliography outlining further reading.
Download or read book The Victorian Empire and Britain s Maritime World 1837 1901 written by M. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
Download or read book European Navies and the Conduct of War written by Carlos Alfaro-Zaforteza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Taking a predominantly continental point of view, the book moves away from the typically British-centric approach taken to naval history as it considers the role of European navies in the development of modern warfare, from its medieval origins to the large-scale, industrial, total war of the twentieth century. Along with this growth of navies as instruments of war, the book also explores the long rise of the political and popular appeal of navies, from the princes of late medieval Europe, to the enthusiastic crowds that greeted the modern fleets of the great powers, followed by their reassessment through their great trial by combat, firmly placing the development of modern navies into the broader history of the period. Chronological in structure, European Navies and the Conduct of War is an ideal resource for students and scholars of naval and military history.
