Command at sea: naval command and control since the sixteenth century

✍ Scribed by Palmer, Michael A

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 390
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

List of Battle Maps Prologue: A Regular Confusion 1. Land Warfare Afloat: Before 1650 2. The Anglo-Dutch Wars 3. At the Dawn of the Enlightenment 4. The Conundrum of the Line Ahead 5. The Advent of Numerary Signaling Systems 6. The Zenith of the Age of Fighting Sail 7. The Age of Steam through the Great War 8. From 1918 through the Second World War 9. The Cold War and Beyond Conclusion: The Crucial Paradox of Knowledge Notes Acknowledgments Index

✦ Subjects

15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general;Bevelvoering;Command and control systems;Command and control systems--History;Communicatiemiddelen;Naval history, Modern;Zeemacht;Zeeslagen;History;Command and control systems -- History