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A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines - through the prism of naval affairs - issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life in ships and naval bases; and the processes of commemoration, journalism and stage-managed pageantry that plotted the interrelationship of ship and shore. This bold and original publication will be essential for undergraduate and postgraduate students of naval and maritime history. Beyond that, though, it marks an important intervention into wider historiographies that will be read by scholars from across the spectrum of social history, cultural studies and the analysis of national identity

Les lignes directrices de la pensée navale au XXe siècle L'histoire de la pensée navale connaît, depuis quelques années, un réel développement mais elle est encore insuffisamment prise en compte par l'histoire navale générale. Les livres de stratégie et de tactique navales ont facilité, parfois suscité l'évolution des doctrines. Leur connaissance est indispensable à une histoire navale totale.

This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. It stands alongside The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I with which it shares much common apparatus and complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth's reign when there was no formal war. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and r

Les Alliés considéraient avoir la supériorité navale face à l'Allemagne, mais dans les faits les flottes françaises et britanniques avaient de nombreuses lacunes que la Kriegsmarine avait identifiées. De plus, la Royal Navy subissait un vieillissement de ses navires qui ne serait surmonté qu'à partir de 1941.