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AnnaSara (Hrsg.) Hammar

Eighteenth-Century Naval Officers

A Transnational Perspective

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This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also demonstrates the uniqueness of the maritime experience, as long voyages and isolation at sea cemented their bond with naval officers across Europe while separating them from landlubbers. It depicts, in a way no previous study has, the parameters of their shared experiences-both the similarities that crossed national boundaries and connected officers, and the differences that can only be… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Seerup, Jakob (Hrsg.) / Wilson, Evan (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-25700-2
  • EAN: 9783030257002
  • Produktnummer: 32963245
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'538 KB

Über den Autor


Evan Wilson is Assistant Professor in the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the U.S. Naval War College. His research focuses on European and American naval history from the age of sail to the twentieth century. He is the author of A Social History of British Naval Officers, 1775-1815 (2017) and the co-editor of Strategy and the Sea (2016). AnnaSara Hammar is Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the editor of Forum Navale, published by the Swedish association for Maritime History. Her thesis, Between Chaos and Control: Social Order in the Swedish Navy, 1670-1716, received the Jan Glete Prize in 2014. She is currently working on a book project about the history of the Swedish navy.Jakob Seerup is a curator at Bornholm's Museum, Denmark. He has worked as a curator and researcher at the Royal Danish Naval Museum, the Danish Arsenal Museum, and the National Museum of Denmark. He has written extensively about the Danish navy in the age of sail, specializing in the cultural history of the navy. His research has been published in both Danish and international journals.

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