Description: This important collection brings together 23 studies on naval technology, policy-making and administration, tactics, strategy, operations and warfare on trade and offer new perspectives and promising departures for historical studies of navies, warfare at sea and important contexts of naval history.
Review Quotes: 'The value of this volume it that is brings together a number of important articles on naval history in the early modern period.' Intl Jrnl of Maritime History '...such essays deserve to be republished...together, they form a complex portrait of the early modern maritime world...' The Northern Mariner '..there is plenty for the naval historian to feast upon in this anthology.' Sixteenth Century Journal