European Navies and the Conduct of War

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European Navies and the Conduct of War
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1: European navies and princely power
	Navies in sixteenth-century Europe
	Late medieval naval warfare
	Navies and northern European monarchies
	France and Spain
	The Battle of Lepanto, 1571
	The Spanish Armada and beyond
	The Baltic
	The Dutch struggle with Spain
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: The seventeenth century: a first age of modern
naval warfare
	Bourbon France
	The first Anglo-Dutch war, 1652–1654
	The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars, 1665–1667 and 1672–1674
	Colbert and the French navy
	The French navy at war with Europe
	The rise of Russian naval power
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 3: Globalisation and escalation, 1715–1815
	Navies in a Europe of dynastic states
	The Seven Years War, 1756–1763
	The expansion of European navies
	American Independence
	The French Revolutionary wars, 1792–1802
	Napoleonic wars, 1803–1815
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 4: The Vienna Settlement, 1815–1854
	Maritime interests and the Congress system
	Two new navies: Egypt and Russia
	The idea of a maritime coalition against a hegemon
	Neutrality: the Declaration of Paris, 1856
	Slave trade: the right of search controversy in the 1840s
	Gunboat diplomacy and ‘free trade’
	The introduction of steam power
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 5: The collapse of the Congress System, 1854–1870
	The Crimean War and its lessons
	A period of French leadership
	Innovation and escalation
	The American Civil War and its legacy
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 6: The age of empire, 1870–1914
	Introduction
	The decline of sea power after 1870
	Causes and consequences of recovery
	Navalism and the new navies
	Strategy and politics
	Naval development on the eve of World War One
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 7: World War One: blockade, neutrality, and the submarine
	Blockade and counter blockade
	The United States, neutrality, and freedom of the seas
	The role of battle fleets
	The 1917–1918 crisis and US belligerency
	Conclusions
	Notes
Chapter 8: 1919–1939, a time of fractured peace
	Notes
Chapter 9: European navies and the war at sea, 1939–1942
	1940
	1941
	1941–1942
	Notes
Chapter 10: Redemption, 1943–1945
	1943
	1944
	1945
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Select bibliography
Index