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List of tables x
List of abbreviations x
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 1500-1660 8
Ships 10
Portuguese naval power 13
Naval warfare 19
Mediterranean warfare 22
Baltic warfare 30
Adantic warfare 31
The Armada 32
Dutch naval power 36
The French navy 38
English naval power 38
A naval revolution? 42
3 1660-1775 49
1660-90 49
The 1690s 50
The War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-13 56
The Anglo-French Alliance, 1716-31 59
Conflict with the Bourbons, 1739-48 64
Naval power and British policy, 1749-55 70
The Seven Years' War, 1756-63 74
The war at sea 77
4 1775-1815 82
Non-Western navies 82
The USA 89
European navies 90
Infrastructure 91
Battle 93
Improved capability 94
The War of American Independence, 1775-83 98
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 102
The War of 1812-15 103
British naval power 104
Blockade 107
Britain's maritime position 111
Defining naval strength and modernity 113
5 1815-1914 116
1815-50 117
Steam power 121
The 1850s 125
The 1860s 127
The 1870s-80s 130
Towards the dreadnought 136
6 1914-45 150
The First World War 150
Submarine warfare 153
Mines 158
A host of naval powers, 1914-18 159
Inter-war developments 162
Naval air power 165
Tasks and roles 167
The Second World War, 1939-45 170
The U-boat war 177
War in the Pacific 179
Amphibious warfare 185
7 1945-2010 189
The changing nature of naval power 189
The USA as the naval superpower 190
The Cold War 193
Naval conflict 199
American-Soviet competition 201
After the Cold War 203
Power projection 209
Trade protection 211
Debating procurement 213
Conclusions 214
8 Thefuture 216
China: The next naval great power? 216
Russian naval moves 220
Counter-insurgency at sea 223
The diversity of naval powers 225
Conclusions 227
9 Conclusions 229
Notes 232
Selected further reading 256
Index 259
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