Author: Neil R. StoutPublisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775
Author: Neil R. StoutPublisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The British Empire Before the American Revolution: The triumphant
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850
Author: Roger MorrissPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351915584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.
The British Empire Before the American Revolution: The triumphant Empire: Part I, The Empire beyond the storm, 1770-1776; Part II, A summary of the series; Part III, Historiography
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Command of the Ocean
Author: N. A. M. RodgerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393060508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
"N. A. M. Rodger provides reassessments of such famous figures as Pepys, Hawke, Howe, and St. Vincent. The particular and distinct qualities of Nelson and Collingwood are contrasted, and the world of the officers and men who made up the originals of Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower is brought to life. Rodger's comparative view of other navies - French, Dutch, Spanish, and American - allows him to make a fresh assessment of the qualities of the British."--BOOK JACKET.
The British Empire Before the American Revolution: The triumphant empire: the empire beyond the storm, 1770-1776; a summary of the series; historiography
Author: Lawrence Henry GipsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1760-1775
Author: Neil R. StoutPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War
Author: David SyrettPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570032387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David Syrett presents a saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises and, above all, failures and lost opportunities. He explains that the British government severely underestimated the Americans' maritime strength and how that error led to devastating consequences. The seemingly invincible navy failed to muster even one decisive victory during the extensive naval conflict.
Hawke, Nelson and British Naval Leadership, 1747-1805
Author: Ruddock F. MackayPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843834995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A discussion of the key leadership qualities which underpinned Britain's naval victories in the eighteenth century.
An Empire on the Edge
Author: Nick BunkerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 038535164X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that preceded the outbreak of America’s war for independence in 1775. It was a tragedy of errors, in which both sides shared responsibility for a conflict that cost the lives of at least twenty thousand Britons and a still larger number of Americans. The British and the colonists failed to see how swiftly they were drifting toward violence until the process had gone beyond the point of no return. At the heart of the book lies the Boston Tea Party, an event that arose from fundamental flaws in the way the British managed their affairs. By the early 1770s, Great Britain had become a nation addicted to financial speculation, led by a political elite beset by internal rivalry and increasingly baffled by a changing world. When the East India Company came close to collapse, it patched together a rescue plan whose disastrous side effect was the destruction of the tea. With lawyers in London calling the Tea Party treason, and with hawks in Parliament crying out for revenge, the British opted for punitive reprisals without foreseeing the resistance they would arouse. For their part, Americans underestimated Britain’s determination not to give way. By the late summer of 1774, when the rebels in New England began to arm themselves, the descent into war had become irreversible. Drawing on careful study of primary sources from Britain and the United States, An Empire on the Edge sheds new light on the Tea Party’s origins and on the roles of such familiar characters as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Hutchinson. The book shows how the king’s chief minister, Lord North, found himself driven down the road to bloodshed. At his side was Lord Dartmouth, the colonial secretary, an evangelical Christian renowned for his benevolence. In a story filled with painful ironies, perhaps the saddest was this: that Dartmouth, a man who loved peace, had to write the dispatch that sent the British army out to fight.