Cover caption -- Legal -- HM No. 19 -- Title page -- Front matter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1: The Field of Maritime History -- I The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy -- II Our Naval Heritage Is in Danger -- III Maritime History, the History of Nautical Science, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History -- IV The Horizons of Maritime History -- Part 2: General Naval History -- V Navies, Strategy, and Tactics in the Age of De Ruyter -- VI "To Aid and Assist the Other" - Anglo-Dutch Naval Cooperation in Coalition Warfare at Sea, 1689-1714 -- VII The Caird Lecture, 2000 - The Anglo-French Naval Wars (1689-1815) in Twentieth-Century Naval Thought -- VIII Nelson's Legacy - A Hero among the World's Navies -- IX Strategy, Tactics, and Leadership - The Legacy of Trafalgar in Professional Naval Thought around the World -- X Whither with Nelson and Trafalgar? The Bicentenary Scholarship of the Nelson Era -- XI The James Ford Bell Lecture, 2008 - Fact in Fiction about Life at Sea in the 18th Century-Understanding the Naval Novel and the World of Aubrey and Maturin -- Part 3: American Naval History -- XII The Formation and the Roles of the Continental Navy, 1775-1785 -- XIII The Expédition Particulière of 1780-1781 as a Joint and Combined Operation -- XIV Sea versus Shore - Amphibious Warfare, Theory, and the War of 1812 -- XV The U.S. Navy's Nineteenth-Century Forward Stations -- XVI "In a Far More Thorough Manner" The Professionalization of the U.S. Navy at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century -- XVII American Naval Bases in Europe -- XVIII The Past as Prologue - The Changing Roles of Sea Power during the Twentieth Century -- Part 4: Naval Theory and History -- XIX Rear Admiral Henry E. Eccles and the "Lessons of Suez," 1956-1968 -- XX Globalisation and Navies - Some Considerations for Naval Theory.

APPENDIX: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY JOHN B. HATTENDORF, 1960-2011 -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PERMISSIONS -- INDEX -- Series.