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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Research in Maritime History LUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Series Editor's Foreword; About the Author; Introduction to the 2011 Edition; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Map of the Dutch Republic; Map of Dutch Naval Activity in European Waters; Part One: The ""Old"" Navy, Late 1500s-1652; Naval Operations against Spain and the Dunkirk Privateers; The Boards of the Admiralties at Work; The Slow Birth of a Naval Officers' Corps; Truly International Crews; Part Two: The ""New"" Navy, 1652-1713; The ""Old"" Navy Out of Date; John de Witt's New Navy.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 and in the BalticChanges 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; Favouritism and Innovation; Little Work, But More Education for the Naval Officer; Naval Seaman, A Poor Man's Job; Aftermath; In Retrospect; Bibliography; Index.