Doing Naval History: Essays Toward Improvement
- ISBN-10
- 1884733069
- ISBN-13
- 9781884733062
- Category
- History / Military / Naval
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Naval War College Press
- Author
- John B. Hattendorf
Description
Examines the practice of writing about naval history by presenting a collection of papers aimed at linking the subject to general history while improving methods for specialized study. The papers are arranged by general topic: Bureaucracy and Technology, Domestic Politics, Comparative History, General Naval History, and Reflections; and include contributions by: Volker Berghahn, James Goldrick, Paul G. Halpern, John B. Hattendorf, Robert Jervis, Paul M. Kennedy, N.A.M. Rodger, David A. Rosenberg, Dennis E. Showalter, Mark R. Shulman, Jon Tetsuro Sumida, William R. Thompson, and Robert S. Wood.
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