John B. Hattendorf – A Transatlantic Tribute

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Contributors ix
6. John B. Hattendorf – A Transatlantic Tribute 1
7. Introduction 5
8. 1. Spanish Noblemen as Galley Captains: A Problematical Social History 9
9. 2. Strategy Seen from the Quarterdeck in the Eighteenth-Century French Navy 19
10. 3. Danish and Swedish Flag Disputes with the British in the Channel 28
11. 4. Reconsidering the Guerre de Course under Louis XIV: Naval Policy and Strategic Downsizing in an Era of Fiscal Overextension 37
12. 5. British Naval Administration and the Lower Deck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century 49
13. 6. British Naval Administration and the Quarterdeck Manpower Problem in the Eighteenth Century 64
14. 7. The Raison d’Être and the Actual Employment of the Dutch Navy in Early Modern Times 76
15. 8. British Defensive Strategy at Sea in the War against Napoleon 88
16. 9. The Offensive Strategy of the Spanish Navy, 1763–1808 98
17. 10. The Influence of Sea Power upon Three Great Global Wars, 1793–1815, 1914–1918, 1939–1945: A Comparative Analysis 109
18. 11. The Evolution of a Warship Type: The Role and Function of the Battlecruiser in Admiralty Plans on the Eve of the First World War 138
19. 12. The Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937–1941 148
20. 13. The Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and his Admirals, 1939–1944 159
21. 14. The Capital Ship, the Royal Navy and British Strategy from the Second World War to the 1950s 169
22. 15. ‘No Scope for Arms Control’: Strategy, Geography and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s 179
23. 16. Sir Julian Corbett, Naval History and the Development of Sea Power Theory 190
24. 17. The Influence of Identity on Sea Power 201
25. 18. Professor 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 213
26. 19. Naval Intellectualism and the Imperial Japanese Navy 226
27. 20. History and Navies: Defining a Dialogue 236
28. 21. Teaching Navies Their History 242
29. Afterword 252
30. A Bibliography of Books, Articles and Reviews Authored, Co-authored, Edited or Co-edited by John B. Hattendorf 1960–2015 255
31. Index 285
32. Tabula Gratulatoria 305