Talking about Naval History; A Collection of Essays

Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College Press, 2011. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. xiv, 351 pages. Includes Foreword, by James P. Wisecup, and Introduction. John Brewster Hattendorf, D.Phil., D.Litt., L.H.D., FRHistS, FSNR, (born December 22, 1941) is an American naval historian. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than fifty books, mainly on British and American maritime history and naval warfare. A Dutch scholar said that Hattendorf "may rightly be called one of the most influential maritime historians in the world." From 1984 to 2016, he was the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The 2014 Oxford Naval Conference - "Strategy and the Sea" - celebrated his distinguished career on April 10-12, 2014. The proceedings of the conference were published as a festschrift. Hattendorf remained actively engaged on the Naval War College campus after his formal retirement in 2016. Includes an Appendix which is a Bibliography of Books and Articles by John B. Hattendorf, 1960-2011. This is Naval War College Historical Monograph Series No. 19. Talking about Naval History is a collection twenty essays selected from the writings of John B. Hattendorf, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College, between 2001 and 2009. They represent a wide historical perspective that ranges across nearly four centuries of maritime history. A number of these pieces have been published previously but have appeared in other languages and in other countries, where they may not have come to the attention of an American naval reading audience. This collection is divided into parts that deal with four major themes: the broad field of maritime history; general naval history, with specific focus on the classical age of sail, from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815; the wide scope of American naval history from 1775 to the end of the twentieth century; and finally, the realm of naval theory and its relationship to naval historical studies. They are reprinted, with only minor alterations, as the originally appeared.