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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Naval history |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Glete, Jan, 1947- Swedish naval administration, 1521-1721. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 (DLC) 2009032790 (OCoLC)430344800 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Glete |
ISBN: | 9789004179165 900417916X 9789047441519 9047441516 1282950916 9781282950917 |
OCLC Number: | 700939595 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 816 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Preface; List of Tables and Diagrams; Maps; Abbreviations; Terms and Explanations; Chapter One Resources, organisational capabilities and control of the sea; Chapter Two The Swedish dynastic state and its navy; Chapter Three Naval operations and control of the Baltic Sea; Chapter Four Swedish naval administration: Scope, complexity, and structures; Chapter Five Warships and naval strength; Chapter Six Cordage and canvas: Fitting out the navy; Chapter Seven Bronze and iron: Swedish naval ordnance; Chapter Eight A peasant society at sea: Men, leaders, and provisioning. |
Series Title: | Northern world, v. 46. |
Responsibility: | by Jan Glete. |
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Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721 is the great scholarly work that crowns Jan Glete's series of immensely important books and articles on early modern European navies. Sadly, he did not live to see this volume in final form, as it is in many ways his most important major work. This study provides a completely new and convincing reinterpretation of Swedish naval history in the context of Swedish and Scandinavian history, providing the Swedish perspective and the international complement to Martin Bellamy's Christian IV and his Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy, 1596-1648 (2006). At the same time, Glete provides a new and stimulating model and case study in understanding the growth, development, sustainment, and operations of a national navy that is notably different from the model of the rival Atlantic powers and the development of global transoceanic empires. Thus, from a number of different perspectives, it is a work that every serious naval scholar should read and consider with care as a source of stimulating approaches. work that every serious naval scholar should read and consider with care as a source of stimulating approaches. John B. Hattendorf in The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord, 21 (4), 2011, 421-422 Read more...

