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British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815: Admirals' Lives

Autor Professor John Morrow
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 sep 2019
During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically.British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350127777
ISBN-10: 1350127779
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 17 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a broader thematic exploration of admirals than the biographical approaches that predominate in studies of the Royal Navy in this period

Notă biografică

John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

Cuprins

1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. 'Service Interest': Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals' Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals' Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.
A rich portrait of the professional and personal lives of flag officers and their multifaceted relations with the ever more demanding bureaucratic structure that was the Admiralty . John Morrow's welcome new, comprehensive, thoroughly researched tour d'horizon of the senior ranks of one of history's most successful naval organizations at the peak of its success and fame will make instructive and engaging reading for its target audiences."
A very good example of source-intensive historical work, with abundant footnotes, a thorough secondary bibliography, and original material from seventeen different archives . Students can use it as a helpful overview, but the fluid, elegant writing will also appeal to the curious general reader.
The length of time, scale and geographical scope of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars at sea had an unprecedented impact on British society and future generations' understanding of the Royal Navy. The performance and public personae of the flag officers as individuals and as a group were highlighted as never before. Morrow has done a first-rate job in taking us behind the events on the high seas to the factors that motivated or influenced the development and fortunes of this remarkable body of officers.
Is this book worth reading? Absolutely, yes . Morrow should be welcomed into the fold of naval historians and congratulated for producing a solid work of naval history.