The first fleets : colonial navies of the British Atlantic world, 1630-1775 / Benjamin C. Schaffer.
| Author/creator | Schaffer, Benjamin C., 1993- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2025] |
| Description | xviii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Colonial navies of the British Atlantic world, 1630-1775 |
| Series | Maritime currents : history and archaeology Maritime currents. ^A1427581 |
| Contents | The transatlantic roots of provincial navies up to 1685 -- Provincial navies in the First Imperial Wars of 1689-1713 -- Provincial navies and irregular warfare on imperial borderlands, c. 1713-1739 -- The War of Jenkins' Ear and the incomplete "royalization" of American naval defense -- The replacement of provincial navies by the Royal Navy in the Seven Years' War, c. 1756-1763 -- The legacy of provincial navies and the navies of the American Revolution, c. 1762-1775. |
| Abstract | "The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024044784 |
| ISBN | 9780817362065 |
| ISBN | 9780817322342 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0817322345 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0817362061 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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