The first fleets colonial navies of the British Atlantic world, 1630-1775 / Benjamin C. Schaffer.
| Author/creator | Schaffer, Benjamin C., 1993 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2025] |
| Description | xviii, 212 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Colonial navies of the British Atlantic world, 1630-1775 |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Maritime currents : history and archaeology |
| 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 (pages 183-206) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024044784 |
| ISBN | 9780817322342 cloth |
| ISBN | 9780817362065 paper |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |