The Profession of Sea Officer in Late Seventeenth-century England
Author : Robert Edward Glass (Ph.D.)
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sailors
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Author : Robert Edward Glass (Ph.D.)
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sailors
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Author : Robert Edward Glass
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Eugene Rasor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1473812399
This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
Author : N. A. M. Rodger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393060508
"N. A. M. Rodger provides reassessments of such famous figures as Pepys, Hawke, Howe, and St. Vincent. The particular and distinct qualities of Nelson and Collingwood are contrasted, and the world of the officers and men who made up the originals of Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower is brought to life. Rodger's comparative view of other navies - French, Dutch, Spanish, and American - allows him to make a fresh assessment of the qualities of the British."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Eugene L. Rasor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313073112
The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. 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.
Author : Wilfrid Prest
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 100095675X
First published in 1987, The Professions in Early Modern England highlights the significant role of professional and quasi-professional occupations in English society before the industrial revolution, contrary to what was once historiographical and sociological orthodoxy. The editorial introduction provides an overview of the history of the professions as a distinct field of scholarly investigation, suggesting that neither historians nor social theorists have adequately mapped or explained the rise of the professions to their present place in modern societies. The following chapters bring together original contributions by researchers who have made a close study of various occupational groups over the period c. 1500-1750. Besides the traditional learned professions and their practitioners in the church, medicine and the law, they survey occupations generally lacking institutional coherence: school teachers, estate stewards and those following the profession of arms. This book remains of interest to students of history, literature and sociology.
Author : Cheryl A. Fury
Publisher :
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839538
A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at sea in the early modern period.
Author : Russell F. Weigley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217073
"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." --Gunther E. Rothenberg " A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." --John Bayley, The London Review of Books "What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." --Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
Author : G. E. Aylmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 019154311X
The Crown's Servants is a major new study of English central government and the royal court from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the death of Charles II in 1685. A sequel to the author's two earlier studies, of royal officials under Charles I (1625-1642) and office-holders under the Commonwealth and the Cromwellian Protectorate (1649-1660), it sets out to explore the extent to which the restoration of the monarchy undid the changes brought about under the Republic. The author looks at the institutions of government, its methods and procedures, the terms and conditions of service, and its personnel both collectively and individually. He considers the policies, tasks, successes, and failures of the regime, and relates these to the process of state formation and to the impact of the state on society. This is both the culmination of a lifetime's work and a crucial contribution in its own right to the history of seventeenth century England and the development of English government.
Author : Jan Glete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134610785
Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650 is the first truly international study of warfare at sea in this period. Commencing in the late fifteenth century with the introduction of gunpowder in naval warfare and the rapid transformation of maritime trade, Warfare at Sea focuses on the scope and limitations of war before the advent of the big battle fleets from the middle of the seventeenth century. The book also compares the social history of seamen and the early officer corps in several European countries and includes discussion on Spain, Portugal, France, Venice, the Ottoman Empire and the Baltic states.