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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LAWLESS MOBS AND A GOREOF BLOOD: Naval Mobilisation and Impressment -- 2 WAR OF PRINCIPLE: Naval Conflict in Europe, 1793-5 -- 3 'WE THE SEAMEN': Protest and Resistance at Sea -- 4 TIDES, CURRENTS AND WINDS: Navy and Empire, 1793-7 -- 5 SPLINTERING THE WOODEN WALLS: The Threat of Invasion, 1796-8 -- 6 THE DELEGATES IN COUNCIL: The Naval Mutinies of 1797 -- PLATES -- 7 A TALE OF TWO SAILORS: Camperdown and Naval Propaganda -- 8 BAD LUCK TO THE BRITISH NAVY!: Mutiny and Naval Warfare, 1798-1801 -- EPILOGUE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships. In this insightful history, James Davey tells the story of Britain's Royal Navy across the turbulent 1790s. As resistance and rebellion swept through the fleets, the navy itself became a political battleground. This was a conflict fought for principles as well as power. Sailors organized riots, strikes, petitions, and mutinies to achieve their goals. These shocking events dominated public discussion, prompting cynical—and sometimes brutal—responses from the government.Tempest uncovers the voices of ordinary sailors to shed new light on Britain's war with France, as the age of revolution played out at every level of society

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Patron's Foreword -- Director's Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. 'New Worlds': 1485-1505 -- Chapter 2. Adventurers: England Turns to the Sea, 1550-80 -- Chapter 3. The Spanish Armada and England's Conflict with Spain, 1585-1604 -- Chapter 4. Building a Navy -- Chapter 5. Using the Seas and Skies: Navigation in Early-Modern England -- Chapter 6. Encounter and Exploitation: The English Colonization of North America, 1585-1615 -- Chapter 7. Of Profit and Loss: The Trading World of Seventeenth-Century England -- Chapter 8. The British Civil Wars, 1638-53 -- Chapter 9. Life at Sea -- Chapter 10. The Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Wars -- Chapter 11. A Sea of Scoundrels: Pirates of the Stuart Era -- Chapter 12. Art and the Maritime World, 1550-1714 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Blank Page

After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of practice and refinement had rendered it adept at executing operations - fighting battles, blockading and convoying - across the globe. And yet, as late as 1807, fleets were forced from their stations due to an ineffective provisioning system. 'The Transformation of British Naval Strategy' shows how sweeping administrative reforms enacted between 1808 and 1812 established a highly-effective logistical system, changing an ineffective supply system into one which successfully enabled a fleet to remain on station for as long as was required. James Davey examines the logistical support provided for fleets sent to Northern Europe during the Napoleonic War and shows how this new supply system successfully transformed naval operations, enabling the navy to pursue crucial objectives of national importance, protect essential exports and imports and attack the economies of the Napoleonic Empire. 'The Transformation of British Naval Strategy' is a detailed study of national policy, administrative and political reform and strategic viability. It delves into the nature of the British state, its relationship with the private sector and its ability to reform itself in a time of war. Bureaucratic restructuring represented the last stage in a century-long process of logistical improvement. As a result of the reforms, the navy was able to conduct operations beyond the realms of possibility even twenty years earlier and saw the reach of its power transformed. Military and Napoleonic historians will find this book invaluable. JAMES DAVEY is Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches British naval history

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. --

The history of the war risks policy -- The underwriters -- The premiums -- Cancellation and automatic termination of cover clause -- The insured perils : an overview -- War -- Civil war -- Revolution, rebellion, insurrection . . . -- . . . or civil strife arising therefrom . . . -- . . . or any hostile act by or against a belligerent power -- Capture -- Seizure -- Arrest, restraint, detainment . . . -- . . . and the consequences thereof or any attempt thereat -- Derelict mines, torpedoes, band weapons of war -- Strikers, locked-out workmen or persons taking part in labour disturbances, riots or civil commotions -- Riots, civil commotions -- Any terrorist . . . -- . . . .or any person acting maliciously or from a political motive -- Piracy -- Confiscation and expropriation -- Sue and labour -- Exclusions -- War risks and marine insurance legislation -- Total loss and notice of abandonment -- Held covered -- Wilful misconduct and fraudulent claims -- The proximate cause -- Cargo war and strikes clauses -- Containers -- War risk insurance in time of war.