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December 2003/April 2004

Volume 2  Number 3 

[Volume 3 Number 1]

The objective of the International Journal of Naval History is to provide a pre-eminent forum for works of naval history researched and written to demonstrable academic standards. Our hope is to stimulate and promote research into naval history and foster communication among naval historians at an international level.

 

ARTICLES

Editorial - Reasons for a Double Issue and other Matters.

Gary E. Weir, for the IJNH

 

Papers from the 

Symposium on John Ericsson and

the Revolution in Naval Warfare 1850-1880

Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm,

14 November 2003

 

John Ericsson and the Transformation of Swedish Naval Doctrine

Jan Glete, Stockholm University, Sweden

 

The Royal Navy, John Ericsson, and the Challenges of New Technology.

Andrew Lambert, Kings College, London

 

John Ericsson, the Monitors, and Union Naval Strategy

Howard J. Fuller, King’s College, 

London—Department of War Studies

 

Additional scholarship:

 

“A State of War Is a Most Unfavorable Period for Experiments”: John Dahlgren and U.S. Naval Ordnance Innovation During the American Civil War.

Robert J. Schneller, Jr., U.S. Naval Historical Center, Washington D.C.

 

The Guns at Filipstad: Some Reflections on the 

John Ericsson Bicentennial

Howard J. Fuller, King’s College
London — Department of War Studies 
 
 
 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

AND 

HISTORICAL NOTES

 

Historical Research in the Digital Era: Techniques, and the More Obvious Pros and Cons.

Howard J. Fuller,  
King’s College, London,  Department of War Studies.

 

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

Announcing a new volume dedicated to Late Nineteenth Century Spanish Warships:

Buques de la Armada Española a través de la fotografía (1849-1900)

By Coello Lillo, Juan Luis and Rodríguez González, Agustín Ramón.

Reviewed by 

Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza, 

King's College, London

 

News from the U.S. Naval Historical Center:

1. Colloquia on Contemporary History 2003-2004.
 
2. A Guide to U.S. Naval History

 

News from the Grinnell College Libraries

Naval Microfilm Offered for Sale

 

Upcoming Symposia, Conferences, Meetings for 2004

Compiled by Dr. David Winkler, Naval Historical Foundation
 

BOOK REVIEWS

Martin Daunton,

Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 Cambridge University Press, 2001.

 

Just Taxes. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 Cambridge University Press, 2002.

A Dual book review by C.I.Hamilton

University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa.

 

A. Jay Cristol. The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship. Washington: Brassey’s, 2002. 

Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood

U.S. Naval Historical Center, Washington D.C.

 

Will Fowler, The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day Harper Collins Publishers, 2002.

Reviewed by Paul Dickson,

 

Norman Friedman. Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America’s New Way of War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003.

Reviewed  by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Washington D.C.

 

Wayne Michael Hall, Stray Voltage:  War in the Information Age. Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 2003.

Reviewed by Timothy Wolters,

National Air & Space Museum, 

Smithsonian Institution

 

C. Douglas Kroll, Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard. Library of Naval Biography, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002.

Reviewed by P.J. Capelotti,
Pennsylvania State University, Abington College

 

Alex R. Larzelere, The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003.

Reviewed by Dennis L. Noble

Sequim, Washington, USA

 

Brian Lavery, Horatio Lord Nelson (New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Reviewed by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.,

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Washington D.C.

 

John Fass Morton, Mustin: A Naval Family of the 20th Century, Naval Institute Press, 2003.

Reviewed by David F. Winkler

Naval Historical Foundation

Washington D.C.

 

Curtis L. Nelson Hunters in the Shallows: A History of the PT Boat. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2003.

Reviewed by Gregory Weeks

The International University

Vienna, Austria

 

Edward Steers, Jr, editor. The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Reviewed by Jan K. Herman,

Historian , U.S. Navy Medical Department,

Washington D.C.

 

 

North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History, Annual Conference

May 6 - May 8, 2004. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

 

Unique Photo

USS Texas (1895-1911)  
Probably photographed prior to the Spanish-American War.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
 
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