Title The English and French navies, 1500-1650 : expansion, organization and state-building / Benjamin W.D. Redding

Published Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: A History of English and French Naval Interaction; 1. Senior Admiralty; 2. Naval Administration; 3. Funding the Fleet; 4. Warship Design and Experimentation; 5. Royal and Private Armed Sea Forces; 6. Navies Transformed; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index Summary This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2021) Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 16th century Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 17th century France. Marine -- History -- 16th century France. Marine -- History -- 17th century SUBJECT France. Marine fast Great Britain. Royal Navy fast Subject Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. Economic history. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781800103993 1800103999 1800104006 9781800104006

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