For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers...
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...
Britain's naval victories in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars succeeded in protecting Britain from French invasion, but they could not of...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth...
England's relationship with the sea in the later Middle Ages has been unjustly neglected, a gap which this volume seeks to fill. The physical fact of...
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...
Awarded the prestigious Anderson Medal by the Society for Nautical Research for the best volume published on an aspect of maritime history for 2010....
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...
'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 examines how, as the nineteenth century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety, was seen in the British navy less as...