AGUSTÍN GUIMERÁ a researcher at the Instituto de Historia, Consejo Supeior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid. He is the author of numerous studies of comparative naval leadership. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Benjamin Darnell completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He has previously contributed to Strategy and the Sea (Boydell Press, 2016). Matthew S. Seligmann is Professor of Naval History at Brunel University London. An expert in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.

Excellent research is offered in well-written and well-edited essays, which are also refreshingly succinct..The result is a collection which offers a crisp overview of a vibrant field of study.

• Introduction - Evan Wilson and Benjamin Darnell and J. Ross DancySpanish Noblemen as Galley Captains: A Problematical Social History - Carla Rahn PhillipsStrategy Seen from the Quarterdeck in the Eighteenth-Century French Navy - Olivier ChalineDanish and Swedish Flag Disputes with the British in the Channel - Jakob SeerupReconsidering the Guerre de Course under Louis XIV: Naval Policy and Strategic Downsizing in an Era of Fiscal Overextension - Benjamin DarnellBritish Naval Administration and the Lower Deck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - J. Ross DancyBritish Naval Administration and the Quarterdeck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - Evan WilsonThe Raison d'être and the Actual Employment of the Dutch Navy in Early Modern Times - Jaap R. BruijnBritish Defensive Strategy at Sea in the War against Napoleon - Roger KnightThe Offensive Strategy of the Spanish Navy, 1763-1808 - Agustin GuimeraThe Influence of Seapower upon Three Great Global Wars, 1793-1815, 1914-1918, 1939-1945: A Comparative Analysis - Paul KennedyThe Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battle Cruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War - Matthew S SeligmannThe Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-1941 - George C. PedenThe Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and His Admirals, 1939-1944 - Werner RahnThe Capital Ship, the Royal Navy and British Strategy from the Second World War to the 1950s - Tim Benbow'No Scope for Arms Control': Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s - Peter John BrobstSir Julian Corbett, Naval History and the Development of Sea Power Theory - Andrew LambertThe Influence of Identity on Seapower - Duncan RedfordProfessor Spenser Wilkinson, Admiral William Sims and the Teaching of Strategy and Sea Power at the University of Oxford and the United States Naval War College, 1909-1927 - Paul M. RamseyNaval Intellectualism and the Imperial Japanese Navy - Keizo KitagawaHistory and Navies: Defining a Dialogue - James GoldrickTeaching Navies Their History - Geoffrey TillAfterword - N.A. M. RodgerJohn B. Hattendorf's Bibliography

AGUSTÍN GUIMERÁ a researcher at the Instituto de Historia, Consejo Supeior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid. He is the author of numerous studies of comparative naval leadership. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Benjamin Darnell completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He has previously contributed to Strategy and the Sea (Boydell Press, 2016). Matthew S. Seligmann is Professor of Naval History at Brunel University London. An expert in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.

Excellent research is offered in well-written and well-edited essays, which are also refreshingly succinct..The result is a collection which offers a crisp overview of a vibrant field of study.

• Introduction - Evan Wilson and Benjamin Darnell and J. Ross DancySpanish Noblemen as Galley Captains: A Problematical Social History - Carla Rahn PhillipsStrategy Seen from the Quarterdeck in the Eighteenth-Century French Navy - Olivier ChalineDanish and Swedish Flag Disputes with the British in the Channel - Jakob SeerupReconsidering the Guerre de Course under Louis XIV: Naval Policy and Strategic Downsizing in an Era of Fiscal Overextension - Benjamin DarnellBritish Naval Administration and the Lower Deck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - J. Ross DancyBritish Naval Administration and the Quarterdeck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - Evan WilsonThe Raison d'être and the Actual Employment of the Dutch Navy in Early Modern Times - Jaap R. BruijnBritish Defensive Strategy at Sea in the War against Napoleon - Roger KnightThe Offensive Strategy of the Spanish Navy, 1763-1808 - Agustin GuimeraThe Influence of Seapower upon Three Great Global Wars, 1793-1815, 1914-1918, 1939-1945: A Comparative Analysis - Paul KennedyThe Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battle Cruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War - Matthew S SeligmannThe Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-1941 - George C. PedenThe Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and His Admirals, 1939-1944 - Werner RahnThe Capital Ship, the Royal Navy and British Strategy from the Second World War to the 1950s - Tim Benbow'No Scope for Arms Control': Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s - Peter John BrobstSir Julian Corbett, Naval History and the Development of Sea Power Theory - Andrew LambertThe Influence of Identity on Seapower - Duncan RedfordProfessor Spenser Wilkinson, Admiral William Sims and the Teaching of Strategy and Sea Power at the University of Oxford and the United States Naval War College, 1909-1927 - Paul M. RamseyNaval Intellectualism and the Imperial Japanese Navy - Keizo KitagawaHistory and Navies: Defining a Dialogue - James GoldrickTeaching Navies Their History - Geoffrey TillAfterword - N.A. M. RodgerJohn B. Hattendorf's Bibliography

AGUSTÍN GUIMERÁ a researcher at the Instituto de Historia, Consejo Supeior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid. He is the author of numerous studies of comparative naval leadership. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Benjamin Darnell completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He has previously contributed to Strategy and the Sea (Boydell Press, 2016). Matthew S. Seligmann is Professor of Naval History at Brunel University London. An expert in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.

Excellent research is offered in well-written and well-edited essays, which are also refreshingly succinct..The result is a collection which offers a crisp overview of a vibrant field of study.

• Introduction - Evan Wilson and Benjamin Darnell and J. Ross DancySpanish Noblemen as Galley Captains: A Problematical Social History - Carla Rahn PhillipsStrategy Seen from the Quarterdeck in the Eighteenth-Century French Navy - Olivier ChalineDanish and Swedish Flag Disputes with the British in the Channel - Jakob SeerupReconsidering the Guerre de Course under Louis XIV: Naval Policy and Strategic Downsizing in an Era of Fiscal Overextension - Benjamin DarnellBritish Naval Administration and the Lower Deck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - J. Ross DancyBritish Naval Administration and the Quarterdeck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century - Evan WilsonThe Raison d'être and the Actual Employment of the Dutch Navy in Early Modern Times - Jaap R. BruijnBritish Defensive Strategy at Sea in the War against Napoleon - Roger KnightThe Offensive Strategy of the Spanish Navy, 1763-1808 - Agustin GuimeraThe Influence of Seapower upon Three Great Global Wars, 1793-1815, 1914-1918, 1939-1945: A Comparative Analysis - Paul KennedyThe Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battle Cruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War - Matthew S SeligmannThe Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-1941 - George C. PedenThe Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and His Admirals, 1939-1944 - Werner RahnThe Capital Ship, the Royal Navy and British Strategy from the Second World War to the 1950s - Tim Benbow'No Scope for Arms Control': Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s - Peter John BrobstSir Julian Corbett, Naval History and the Development of Sea Power Theory - Andrew LambertThe Influence of Identity on Seapower - Duncan RedfordProfessor Spenser Wilkinson, Admiral William Sims and the Teaching of Strategy and Sea Power at the University of Oxford and the United States Naval War College, 1909-1927 - Paul M. RamseyNaval Intellectualism and the Imperial Japanese Navy - Keizo KitagawaHistory and Navies: Defining a Dialogue - James GoldrickTeaching Navies Their History - Geoffrey TillAfterword - N.A. M. RodgerJohn B. Hattendorf's Bibliography