European navies and the conduct of war /

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European Navies have operated over a period of five hundred years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Chronological in structure, the book is the ideal resource for students and schola...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	James, Alan, 1965- (Author), Alfaro Zaforteza, Carlos (Author), Murfett, Malcolm H. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Subjects:	Sea-power > Europe > History. Europe > History, Naval.

Table of Contents:

European Navies and princely power / Alan James
The seventeenth century: a first age of modern naval warfare / Alan James
Globalisation and escalation, 1715-1815 / Alan James
The Vienna Settlement, 1815-1854 / Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
The collapse of the congress system / Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
The age of empire, 1870-1914 / Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
The First World War. blockade, neutrality, and the submarine / Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza
1919-1939, a time of fractured peace / Malcolm Murfett
European Navies and the war at sea, 1939-42 / Malcolm Murfett
Redemption, 1943-45 / Malcolm Murfett.