Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- List of Tables -- Maps -- Preface -- Chapter One: "The Age of Sail" and Naval History -- Chapter Two: The Changing Maritime World -- The North Sea -- The Baltic -- The Mediterranean -- The Eastern Atlantic Coast: France -- The Eastern Atlantic Coast: Spain -- The Eastern Atlantic Coast: Portugal -- The Western Atlantic: The Caribbean -- The Western Atlantic: South and Central America -- The Western Atlantic: North America and Canada -- Africa -- The Far East -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: The Battlefleet and the Idea of Seapower In the Early Modern World -- The First Anglo-Dutch War 1652-4 -- The Second Anglo-Dutch War 1664-7 -- The Franco-Dutch and Anglo-Dutch Wars 1672-8 -- The Franco-Dutch/Spanish War -- Conclusions -- Battlefleets and Cruising Squadrons, 1678-88 -- The Dutch Invasion of England, 1688 -- Chapter Four: The Establishment of the Battlefleet, 1650-88 -- The Components of Operational Flexibility -- Finance and Administration -- Materials and Shipyards -- Seamen and Manpower -- Private Investment In Naval War -- Ship Technology -- The Officer Corps -- The Handling of Navies: Tactics and Strategy -- Chapter Five: The Growth of Operational Flexibility -- 1689-90: Bantry Bay and Beachy Head -- 1691-2: Barfleur and La Hogue -- 1693-4: Smyrna Convoy and the Mediterranean -- 1695-7: The Limits of Seapower -- The War of Spanish Succession 1701-13 -- War and the Influence of Seapower -- Chapter Six: The Nine Years War (1688-97) and the War of Spanish Succession (1701-13) -- The Baltic 1700-27 -- Anglo-Spanish Disputes, 1718-39 -- The Anglo-Spanish War, 1739-44 -- The War With France and Spain, 1744-8 -- Chapter Seven: Seapower On the World Stage, 1713-56 -- 1748-55: Recovery and Development -- 1756-8: The Effects of Attrition -- 1759-63: The Collapse of French Seapower.

Chapter Eight: The Seven Years War and Global Seapower (1756-63) -- The Baltic 1721-90 -- The Eastern Mediterranean, 1720-90 -- France: Recovery and Expansion, 1763-78 -- Spain: 1763-78 -- Britain: 1763-78 -- Global Maritime War: The Threat to British Supremacy, 1778-80 -- The Global War: The British In Crisis 1780-1 -- The Global War: The British Recovery, 1782-3 -- The Global War: Conclusions -- Chapter Nine: The Acceleration of Naval Competition: 1763-89 -- 1783-93: The Apogee of Naval Competition -- 1793-6 -- 1797-1805 -- 1805-15 -- 1815-30 -- Chapter Ten: Seapower and Global Hegemony, 1789-1830 -- Chapter Eleven: Seapower, Battlefleets and Naval Warfare -- Appendix: The Nominal Strength of Selected Sailing Navies, 1680-1830 -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Notes -- "The Age of Sail" and Naval History -- The Changing Maritime World -- The Battlefleet and the Idea of Seapower In the Early Modern World -- The Establishment of the Battlefleet, 1650-88 -- The Growth of Operational Flexibility -- The Nine Years War (1688-97) and the War of Spanish Succession (1701-13) -- Seapower On the World Stage 1713-56 -- The Seven Years War and Global Seapower, 1756-63 -- The Acceleration of Naval Competition, 1763-89 -- Seapower and Global Hegemony, 1789-1830 -- Seapower, Battlefleets and Naval Warfare -- Select Bibliography.