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Table of contents :
European Navies and the Conduct of War- Front Cover
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

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