The Dutch navy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This book is a reprint of Jaap R. Bruijn's 1993 book, The Dutch Navy, which offers an English-language overview of the history of the Dutch Navy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is divided into three chronological periods: the 'old', 'new', and 'second-ra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. John's, Newfoundland :
International Maritime Economic History Association
2011.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Research in maritime history ; no. 45. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3983699x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: The old navy, late 1500s-1652
- Naval operations against Spain and the Dunkirk Privateers
- The Boards of Admiralties at work
- The slow birth of a naval officer's corps
- Truly international crews
- Part two: The new navy, 1652-1713
- The 'old' navy out of date
- John de Witt's new navy
- An era of naval campaigns against England and France in the Baltic
- Changes in the Naval Administration
- De Ruyter and the other naval officers
- Well-manned ships
- Part three: a second-rate navy, 1714-1795
- Convoys and the containment of the Barbary Corsairs
- Favourities and innovation
- Little work, but more education for the Naval Officer
- Naval seaman, a poor man's job
- Aftermater
- In retrospect.
