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Trafalgar in History D. Cannadine

Trafalgar in History By D. Cannadine

Trafalgar in History by D. Cannadine


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After the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson, this volume acts both as a summary and a collection of some of the best scholarship on the battle, its context and legacy. It moves away from Nelson and brings new research from a range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on one of the most significant naval actions in the age of sail.

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Trafalgar in History: A Battle and Its Afterlife by D. Cannadine

After the bicentenary of Trafalgar and the death of Nelson, this volume acts both as a summary and a collection of some of the best scholarship on the battle, its context and legacy. It moves away from Nelson and brings new research from a range of disciplinary perspectives to bear on one of the most significant naval actions in the age of sail.

About D. Cannadine

SIMON BURROWS Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Leeds University, UK FRANCOIS CROUZET Emeritus Professor of History, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, France MARIANNE CZISNIK PhD Graduate, University of Edinburgh, UK MARTIN DAUNTON Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, UK PAUL KENNEDY J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, USA ROGER KNIGHT Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich, UK ANDREW LAMBERT Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London, UK MARK PHILP Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK GEOFFREY QUILLEY Curator of Maritime Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK NICHOLAS A. M. RODGER Anderson Research Fellow of the National Maritime Museum and Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; D.Cannadine The Fiscal-Military State and the Napoleonic Wars; M.Daunton The British Economy at the Time of Trafalgar: Strengths and Weaknesses; F.Crouzet Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Napoleonic Era; S.Burrows The Ships and Men: The Margin of Superiority; R.Knight Sea Power and Land Power in the Great Wars Against France; N.A.M.Rodger Battle of the Pictures: Painting in the History of Trafalgar; G.Quilley Politics and Memory in Popular Song; M.Philp Commemorating Trafalgar: Preparing for the First Centenary; M.Czisnik The Magic of Trafalgar: The Nineteenth Century Legacy; A.Lambert The Meaning of Trafalgar in World History; P.Kennedy

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GOR009869628
9780230009004
023000900X
Trafalgar in History: A Battle and Its Afterlife by D. Cannadine
Used - Like New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2006-06-06
191
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