This book explores the world of British naval officers at the height of the Royal Navy's power in the age of sail. It describes the full spectrum of...
Britain's naval victories in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars succeeded in protecting Britain from French invasion, but they could not of...
When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security...
'An original and evocative window onto the lives of men who bridged the two worlds of eighteenth century Europe and the Far East.' Professor Nicholas...
This book describes naval warfare during the opening phase of the Hundred Years War, a vital period in the development of the early Royal Navy, in...
For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers...
This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by...
This book explores the competing demands of family, war and duty in the lives of eighteenth-century naval men and their families. It covers not just...
Most books on the colonisation of India view the subject in Eurocentric imperial terms, focusing on the ways in which European powers competed with...
This book responds to the increasing interest of maritime historians in the study of ports. These enclaves offer significant insights into a variety...