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The Dutch and English fiscal-naval states: a comparative overview
Get PDFWarfare at sea defined the relationship between the Dutch and English states during the second half of the seventeenth century. The ships of these two nations encountered one another again and again, in vast battles and in small skirmishes, in European waters and around the world. Many thousands fought in these conflicts, which had an impact upon the entire populations of both countries, as well as having significant consequences for global politics.¹ Mobilising the naval forces that fought these wars was an enormous undertaking, and naval administration and operations occupied much government time and resources in England and the Dutch..
Arguing over empire:international law and Anglo-Dutch rivalry in the Banda Islands, 1616-67
No full textWar, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652-89
No full textThis book re-examines the history of Anglo-Dutch conflict during the seventeenth century, of which the three wars of 1652-4, 1665-7 and 1672-4 were the most obvious manifestation. Low-intensity conflict spanned a longer period. From 1618-19 hostilities in Asia between the Dutch and English East India Companies added new elements of tension beyond earlier disputes over the North Sea fisheries, merchant shipping and the cloth trade. The emerging multilateral trades of the Atlantic world added new challenges. This book integrates the European, Asian, American and African dimensions of the Anglo-Dutch Wars in an authentically global view. The role of the state receives special attention during a period in which both countries are best understood as 'fiscal-naval states'. The significance of sea power is reflected in the public history of the Anglo-Dutch wars, acknowledged in the concluding chapters. The book includes important new research findings and imaginative new thinking by leading historians of the subject
Fleets and States in a Composite Catholic Monarchy:Spain c. 1500-1700
No full textIt is widely held that the Spanish Habsburgs (c.1516–1700) had little interest in sea power and thus were doomed to defeat in the maritime struggle—witness the disastrous Armada of 1588. In fact, a global empire embracing the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific could not—and did not—ignore the sea. Indeed, following—not entirely coincidentally—1588, Spanish policy was characterised by a ‘turn to the sea’. Hitherto historians have explored this change in narrowly political or strategic terms. However, this essay seeks to understand what it reveals more broadly about the polity, society, and culture of Habsburg Spain. It does so by considering the question of salutes, the composition of Spain’s fleets, the relative importance of the public sector (‘the state’) and the private sector and the extent to which the Habsburgs sought, by what might be regarded as social engineering, to encourage their subjects to embrace service at sea
Neutrality at Sea:Scandinavian responses to ‘Great Power’ Maritime Warfare, 1651-1713
No full textAs early as 1651, the English found themselves reacting to a surprisingly effective, yet almost suicidal attack on their warships by the Swedish vessel Stockholm. Similar individualistic actions occurred in the 1660s and most spectacularly in the 1704 action of The Oland which saw a Swedish Crown warship attack eight Royal Navy 50-gunners while escorting a supply convoy destined, ironically, for England. More importantly, the usually hostile Scandinavian nations frequently pulled resources throughout the 1690s and 1700s to defend their commercial vessels. Backed by the newly penned legal justification provided by Joannis Gröningii’s Navigatio Libera (1693), the Scandinavians co-ordinated their naval assets and legal justifications to aggressively confront anyone bent on interfering with their right to free trade. This chapter reviews the Scandinavian reactions to attacks on their neutrality. These successfully reduced predation on neutral vessels and established a precedent for neutrality as a viable naval ideology thereafter
Petra Groen (ed.). De Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Van opstand naar geregelde oorlogvoering 1568-1648 (Militaire Geschiedenis van Nederland, 1.) Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Boom, 2013. 496 pp. ISBN 978-94-61050475-3. € 39,90.
No full textMerdeka en Pride: De rol van twee Japanse oorlogsfilms in de historiografische controverse rondom de Tweede Wereldoorlog*
No full textDit artikel schetst welke rol de films Merdeka en Pride spelen in de controverse rondom de historiografie. Eerst zal gekeken worden naar beide films, waarna aandacht wordt besteed aan de aard van de historische polemiek. Voor heel wat mensen is de interpretatie van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, zoals die in beide films wordt gegeven, volstrekt plausibel. Voor de meeste anderen is deze visie echter volkomen absurd en zelfs beledigend. Waarom vinden deze films dan toch zo’n breed draagvlak en welk doel stond de makers voor ogen? Zo zal blijken welke rol beide films innemen in de felle pennenstrijd die al jaren speelt in Japan. Dit werpt meer licht op de vraag welke rol het medium film kan spelen in het aan de orde stellen van maatschappelijke en historische vraagstukken in Japan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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