Naval leadership and management, 1650-1950 : essays in honour of Michael Duffy /
Many works on naval history ascribe success to the special qualities of individual leaders, Nelson being the prime example. This book in contrast moves away from focusing on Nelson and other leading individuals to explore more fully how naval leadership worked in the context of a large, complex, glo...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York :
Boydell Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Michael Duffy : an appreciation / Roger Knight
- Introduction / Richard Harding
- Admiral Rainier's management challenges, 1794-1805 / Peter Ward
- Neglect or treason : leadership failure in the mid-eighteenth-century Royal Navy / Richard Harding
- Who has command? The Royal Artillerymen aboard Royal Navy warships in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Gareth Cole
- "The marine officer is a raw lad and therefore troublesome' : Royal Naval officers and the officers of the Marines, 1755-1797 / Britt Zerbe
- High exertions and difficult cases : the work of the transport agent at Portsmouth and Southampton, 1795-1797 / Roger Morriss
- Forgotten or ignored, the officers at Invergordon : 'We are doing this for you as well you know' / Mike Farquharson-Roberts
- 'To excite the whole company to courage and bravery' : the incentivisation of British privateering crews, 1702-1815 / David J. Starkey
- New kinds of discipline : the Royal Navy in the second half of the nineteenth century / Oliver Walton
- Towards a hierarchy of management : the Victorian and Edwardian navy, 1860-1918 / Mary Jones
- Leadership training for midshipmen, c.1919-1939 / Elinor Romans.