John Hattendorf, HM 30: Reflections on Naval History: Collected Essays
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Abstract
War College Monograph Series (1973-2023) is a collection of essays by John Hattendorf.The sheer breath of this collection commands attention.In his Introduction, Hattendorf sets the theme."Reflecting on history," he writes, "is a basic function for an academic historian."The six parts -"Maritime History and the Historical Perspective"; "Early Modern Europe"; "The New Republic"; "The World Wars"; "Maritime History of, at, and near Newport, Rhode Island"; and "Naval Theory" -together comprise thirty essays spanning a period of four centuries.Hattendorf takes the reader on an extraordinary historical voyage beginning with "Ubi Sumus?Twenty-Five Years Later," a review of the expanding nature of maritime history.The collection concludes near the present moment with "Naval Power and the Multidimensional Roles of Naval Power," a paper delivered at the Third International Symposium on Security and Defense held in Lima, Peru.For the most part, Hattendorf argues that traditional naval history has been written "from the limited viewpoint of a specific nation's history or through the biography of national naval histories."While recognizing the importance of this approach, it is, in his view, too narrow.To fully understand the role of the sea in human history, historians need to embrace a variety of disciplines, "including science and technology, industry, economics, trade and business, art, literature, military and naval affairs, and international relations."To be sure, this presents a daunting task, yet, despite the challenge, Hattendorf is optimistic as scholars move beyond battles and heroes, working to gather these disparate elements into the wider world of naval and maritime history.While all thirty essays in this collection are well documented and elegantly written, "Part 2: Early Modern Europe" best captures Hattendorf's approach: an interdisciplinary analysis emphasizing technological developments guided by sophisticated organizational structures.The first essay in this section, "Navies and Naval Operations, 1400-1815," sets the stage with a wideranging historiographical analysis of "Naval power and Naval Operations, 1400-1815."During the first part of this period, until 1650, navies moved from a freebooting, somewhat unorganized style of warfare into more organized national fleets employing recognized tactics and coherent strategic goals.In the period following, 1650-1815, the evolution continued as navies, serving the interests of powerful "Fiscal-Bureaucratic States," contended for domination in Europe and elsewhere.Central to this period was the "Anglo-Dutch Rivalry."Between 1652 and 1676, England and the Dutch Republic
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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