This is a very extensive list, providing a detailed coverage going
far beyond that which would be expected from any individual student.
It is intended for use after discussions between student and tutor,
which will provide guidance on specific items relevant to each assignment.
M. Acerra, Rochefort, la construction navale française
(1661-1815) (4 v., Paris 1993)
M. Acerra, 'Les constructeurs de la Marine, 17e-18e siècle',
Revue Historique 343, 1984
R.G. Albion, Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the
Royal Navy, 1652-1862 (Cambridge, Mass, 1926)
Ibid, 'The timber problem of the Royal Navy 1652-1862', Mariner's
Mirror 38 (1952), Maritime Miscellany Series, 5
O. Anderson, 'The establishment of British supremacy at sea and
the exchange of naval prisoners of war 1689-1783' EHR 175, 1960
C.M. Andrews, 'Anglo-French Commercial Rivalry, 1700-1750', American
HR 20, 1914-5
J. Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century
England (Princeton 1978)
E.L. Asher, The Resistance to the Maritime Classes: The Survival
of Feudalism in the France of Colbert (Berkeley and Los Angeles
1960)
W.J. Ashworth, ''System of terror': Samuel Bentham, accountability
and dockyard reform during the Napoleonic Wars', Social History
23, 1998
R.W. Avery, 'The Naval Protection of Britain's Maritime Trade,
1793-1802', Oxford D. Phil. thesis, 1983
N. Baker, Government and Contractors: The British Treasury and
War Supplies, 1775-1783 (1971)
P.W. Bamford, Forests and French Sea Power, 1660-1789 (Toronto
1956)
ibid, Fighting Ships and Prisons: The Mediterranean Galleys
of France in the Age of Louis XIV (Minneapolis 1973)
K.C. Barraclough, Steelmaking before Bessemer (2 v., 1984)
D.A. Baugh, British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole
(Princeton, 1965)
Ibid, Naval Administration, 1715-50 (Navy Records Society
120, 1977)
ibid, 'Great Britain's "Blue-Water" Policy, 1689-1815', International
Hist. Rev. 10, 1988
C. Bayly, Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World
1780-1830 (1989)
J. Black, Natural and Necessary Enemies: Anglo-French Relations
in the Eighteenth Century (1986)
R.C. Blitz, 'Mercantilist Policies and the Pattern of World Trade,
1500-1750', Journal of Economic History 27, 1967
R.J. Bonney (ed), Economic Systems and State Finance (1995)
J.F. Bosher, French Finances 1770-1795 (1970)
J.S. Bosher, The Canada Merchants, 1713-63 (1987)
C. Bouchet, La lutte pour l'éspace caraibe et la façade
atlantique de l'Amerique du Sud (1672-1763) (Paris 1991)
P. Boulle, 'Patterns of French Colonial Trade and the Seven Years
War', Histoire Sociale/Social History 7, 1974
F. Braudel and E. Labrousse (eds), Histoire économique
et sociale de la France, II, 1661-1789 (1971)
J. Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State,
1688-1783 (1989)
J.S. Bromley (ed), The Manning of the Royal Navy: Selected Public
Pamphlets 1693-1873 (NRS 119, 1974)
J.S. Bromley, Corsairs and Navies (1987)
D.K. Brown, Before the Ironclad (1990)
P. Butel, Les négociants bordelais: l'Europe et les Iles
au 18e siècle (1974)
ibid (ed), Commerce et plantation dans la Caraïbe, 18e
et 19e siècles (1992)
P.J. Cain & A.G. Hopkins, British Imperialism: Innovation
and Expansion, 1688-1914 (1993)
N. Canny, Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World
1560-1800 (1988)
S.H.H. Carrington, The British West Indies during the American
Revolution: a study in colonial economy and politics (Leiden
1987)
R.V.P. Castex, Les Idées Militaires de la Marine du XVIIIe
siècle (Paris 1911)
K.M. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East
India Company, 1660-1760 (1978)
C. Church, Revolution and Red Tape: The French Ministerial Bureaucracy
1770-1850 (1981)
G.N. Clark, The Dutch Alliance and the War against French Trade,
1688-97 (1923)
Ibid, 'War Trade and Trade War, 1701-13', Economic Hist. Rev.
2, 1929
J.G. Clark, La Rochelle and the Atlantic Economy during the
Eighteenth Century (1981)
J.G. Coad, The Royal Dockyards (1989)
D.C. Coleman, 'Naval Dockyards under the later Stuarts', Ec. HR
6, 1953
D.C. Coleman (ed), Revisions in Mercantilism (1969)
L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992)
C.C. Cooper, 'The Portsmouth system of manufacture', Technology
and Culture 25, 1984.
M. Crook, Toulon in War and Revolution (1991)
F. Crouzet, L'économie britannique et le blocus continental
(2nd ed, Paris 1987)
ibid, Britain, France, and International Commerce: from Louis
XIV to Victoria (1996)
F. Crouzet, 'North European timber exports to Great Britain, 1760-1810',
in P.L. Cottrell & D.H. Aldcroft (eds), Shipping, Trade and
Commerce (1981)
P. Crowhurst, The French War on Trade: Privateering 1793-1815
Loughborough 1985)
P. Crowhurst, The Defence of British Trade, 1688-1815 (1977)
P. Dardel, Commerce, industrie et navigation à Rouen
et au Havre au 18e siècle (1966)
Ibid, Navires et marchandises dans les ports de Rouen et du
Havre au 18e siècle (1963)
M. Daumas (ed), Histoire générale des techniques
(3 v., Paris 1962-8)
R. Davis, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the 17th
and 18th Centuries (Newton Abbot 1972)
R. Davis, The Industrial Revolution and British Overseas Trade
(1979)
C. de la Roncière, Histoire de la marine française
(6v, Paris 1900-32)
J. Delumeau, Le mouvement du port de Saint-Mâlo, 1681-1720
(1966)
P.G.M. Dickson, The Financial Revolution in England (1967)
M. Duffy (ed), Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850
(1992)
ibid, Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower: the British Expeditions
to the West Indies and the War with Revolutionary France (1987)
J.R. Dull, The French Navy and American Independence (Princeton
1975)
J. Ehrman, The Navy in the War of William III, 1689-1697
(1953)
H. Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800
(1976)
R. Gardiner, The First Frigates (1992)
ibid, The Heavy Frigate (vol 1) (1994)
D.P. Geggus, Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation
of Saint-Domingue, 1793-1798 (1982)
C. Gillispie, Science and Polity in France at the End of the
Old Regime (Princeton 1980)
R. Glover, Britain at Bay (1973)
Ibid, 'The French Fleet, 1807-14', Journal of Modern History
39, 1967
S. Gradish, The Manning of the British Navy during the Seven
Years War (1980)
G.S. Graham, Empire of the North Atlantic (1950)
J.M. Haas, 'The Royal Dockyards: the earliest Visitations and Reform
1749-1778)' Hist. Journal 13, 1970
Ibid, 'The Introduction of Task Work into the Royal Dockyards,
1775', Journ. British Studies 8, 1969
R. Hahn, The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: the Paris
Academy of Sciences 1666-1803 (Berkeley 1971)
C.D. Hall, British Strategy in the Napoleonic Wars, 1803-15
(1992)
N. Hampson, La marine de l'an II (Paris 1959)
R. Harding, The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815
(1995)
J. Harland, Seamanship in the Age of Sail (1984)
J.R. Harris, Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth
Century (1992) [esp chapters 3, 5, 6]
J.R. Harris, Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain
and France in the Eighteenth Century (1998)
J.R. Harris, The Copper King (1964)
R.D. Harris, 'French Finances and the American War', JMH 48, 1976
J.B. Hattendorf et al, British Naval Documents 1204-1960
(Navy records Soc 131, 1993)
P. Haudrère, La Compagnie française des Indes
au XVIIIe siècle (Paris 1989)
L. Hilaire-Perez, 'Invention and the State in 18th Century France',
Technology and Culture 32, 1991
D. Howse, Neville Maskelyne, the Seaman's Astronomer (1969)
C. Huetz de Lemps, Géographie du commerce de Bordeaux
(1975)
Innovations techniques dans la Marine, 1641-1817 (Paris
1990)
J.I. Israel, Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 (1989)
M.C. Jacob, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial
West (1997)
Jamieson, A.G., 'War in the Leeward Islands, 1775-1783' (Oxford
D. Phil. thesis, 1981)
E.H. Jenkins, A History of the French Navy (1973)
D.W. Jones, War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough
(1988)
P.M. Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
(1976)
H.S.K. Kent, War and Trade in the Northern Seas: Anglo-Scandinavian
Economic Relations in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (1973)
F.W. Knight & P.K. Liss, Atlantic Port Cities: economy,
culture and society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (1991)
R.J.B. Knight, Portsmouth Dockyard Papers, 1774-83 (Portsmouth
Record Series 6, 1987)
Ibid, 'Sandwich, Middleton and Dockyard Appointments', Mariner's
Mirror 57, 1971
Ibid, 'The Introduction of Copper Sheathing into the Royal Navy,
1779-1786', MM 59, 1973
J.W. Konvitz, Cities and the Sea: Port-City Planning in Early
Modern Europe (1978)
A. Kraatz, La Compagnie française de Russie: histoire
du commerce franco-russe aux 17e et 18e siècles (1997)
B. Lavery, The Ship of the Line (2 v., 1983-4)
Ibid, The Arming and Fitting of British Ships of War, 1600-1815
(1987)
G. Le Bouedec, Le port et l'arsenal de Lorient (5 v., Paris
1994)
T. Le Goff and J. Meyer, 3 articles on naval construction in Annales
de Bretagne 75, 1969 and 76, 1970, then Annales E.S.C.
1, 1971
T.J.A. Le Goff, 'Offre et productivité de la main d'oeuvre
dans les armements français au 18e siècle', Histoire,
Economie et Société 2, 1983
Ibid, 'Les gens de mer devant le système des classes (1755-1763)',
in special number of Revue du Nord, 1986
H. Legohorel, Les trésoriers généraux de
la marine (1715-1788) (Paris 1965)
P.K. Liss, Atlantic Empires: the Networks of Trade and Revolution,
1713-1826 (1983)
S. Llinares, Marine, propoulsion et technique: l'évolution
du système technologique du navire de guerre français
au XVIIIe siècle (1994)
CC. Lloyd, J. Keevil, and J.L.S. Coulter, Medicine and the Navy
(4 v., 1957-63)
R.F. Mackay, Admiral Hawke (1965)
P. Mackesy, The War in the Mediterranean, 1803-1810 (1957)
J.J. McCusker and R.R. Menard, The Economy of British America,
1607-1789 (Chapel Hill, 1985)
J.J. McCusker, Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic
World (1997)
R.A. McDonald (ed), West Indies Accounts: Essays in the history
of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy (1996)
R. McNeill, Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg
and
Havana, 1700-1763 (1986)
C. Manning, Fortunes à faire: The French in Asian Trade,
1719-48 (1996)
P. Marshall and G. Williams, The British Atlantic Empire before
the American Revolution (1980)
P. Mathias and P.K. O'Brien, 'Taxation in England and France, 1715-1810',
Journal of European Ec. Hist., 5, 1976
R. Memain, Matelots et soldats des vaisseaux du roi (Paris
1936)
ibid, La marine de Guerre Sous Louis XIV. le matériel.
Rochefort arsenal modèle de Colbert (Paris 1937)
J. Meyer, L'Armement nantais dans la deuxième moitié
du 18e siècle (1969)
J. Michel, Sartine, de la Paris de Louis XV à la marine
de Louis XVI (2 v., Paris 1984)
R. Middleton, The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry
and the Conduct of the Seven Years War (1985)
Ibid, 'Pitt, Anson and the Admiralty, 1756-63', History
NS 55
Ibid, 'The Visitation of the Royal Dockyards, 1749', MM 77, 1991
M. Morineau, Les grandes compagnies des Indes Orientales (16e-19e
siècles) (1994)
R. Morriss, The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and
Napoleonic Wars (1983)
A.E. Musson and E. Robinson, Science and Technology in the Industrial
Revolution (1969)
P.K. O'Brien, 'The political economy of British taxation, 1660-1815',
Ec. Hist. Review 41, 1988
J.H. Owen, The War at Sea under Queen Anne (1938)
R. Pares, Colonial Blockade and Neutral Rights, 1739-1763
(1938)
Ibid, War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763 (1936)
ibid, 'American versus Continental Warfare, 1739-1763', EHR 51,
1936
C.N. Parkinson, Britannia Rules: The Classic Age of Naval History,
1793-1815 (1977)
ibid, War in the Eastern Seas, 1793-1815 (1954)
C.N. Parkinson & A. Fayle, The Trade Winds: a study of British
overseas trade during the French wars, 1793-1815) (1948)
A.T. Patterson, The Other Armada: The Franco-Spanish Attempt
to Invade Britain in 1779 (1960)
J. Peter, Le port et l'arsenal du Havre sous Louis XIV (Paris
1995)
ibid, Les artilleurs de la Marine sous Louis XIV (Paris
1995)
ibid, Maîtres des forges et maîtres fondeurs de
la Marine sous Louis XIV (Paris 1996)
ibid, Vauban et Toulon (Paris 1994)
I.L. Phillips, 'The Evangelical Administrator: Sir Charles Middleton
at the Navy Board, 1778-1790', Oxford D. Phil. thesis 1978
B. Pool, British Navy Board Contracts, 1660-1832 (1960)
J.M. Price, France and the Chesapeake (2 v., Ann Arbor,
1973)
J.M. Price, Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade: the
View from the Chesapeake, 1700-1776 (Cambridge, Mass., 1980)
J. Pritchard, The Anatomy of a Naval Disaster (Montreal
1995)
J. Pritchard, 'From Shipwright to Naval Constructor: the professionalization
of eighteenth-century French naval constructors', Technology
and Culture 28, 1987
H.W. Richmond, The Navy in the War of 1748 (3 v, 1920)
J.C. Riley, The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France
(Princeton 1986)
J.C. Riley, 'French Finances, 1727-1768', Journal of Mod. Hist.
59 (1987)
N.A.M. Rodger, The Insatiable Earl (1993)
J.C. Sainty, Admiralty Officials 1660-1870 (1975)
H.M. Scott, 'The Importance of Bourbon Naval Reconstruction in
the Strategy of Choiseul after the Seven Years' War', International
History Review 1, 1979
J.F. Searing, West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: the
Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860 (1993)
R.B. Sheridan, Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the
British West Indies 1623-1775 (1973)
D.J. Starkey, British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth
Century (1990)
I.K. Steele, The English Atlantic 1675-1740 (1986)
R. Stein, 'The French sugar business in the eighteenth century:
a quantitative history', Business History 22, 1980
N.R. Stout, The Royal Navy in America, 1760-1775 (Annapolis
1973)
C.E. Swanson, Predators and Prizes: American privateering and
imperial warfare, 1739-48 (1991)
G. Symcox, The Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688-1697 (The
Hague 1974)
D. Syrett, The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775-1783
(1989)
Ibid, Shipping and the American War 1775-1783 (1970)
J. Tarrade, Le commerce colonial française à la
fin de l'ancien régime (Paris 1972)
N. Tracy, Navies, Deterrence, and American Independence
(Vancouver, 1988)
B. Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail (1990)
F.R. Velde and D.R. Weir, 'The financial market and government
debt policy in France, 1746-1793', Journal of Ec. Hist. 52,
1992
M. Vergé-Franceschi, Marine et Education sous l'Ancien
Régime (Paris 1991)
I. Wallerstein, The Modern World-System , vol. 2, Mercantilism
and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600-1750
(1980) and 3, The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist
World Economy, 1730-1840s (1989)
P.L.C. Webb, 'The Rebuilding and Repair of the Fleet, 1783-93',
BIHR 50, 1977
D.R. Weir, 'Tontines, public finance and revolution in France and
England, 1688-1789', Journal of Ec. Hist. 49, 1989
E.N. White, 'Was there a solution to the ancien regime's fiscal
dilemma?', Journal of Ec. Hist. 49, 1989
J.B. Williams, British Commercial Policy and Trade Expansion,
1750-1850 (1972)
D. Woronoff, L'industrie sidérurgique en France pendant
la révolution et l'Empire (Paris 1984)
ibid, Forges et forêts: recherches sur la consommation
proto-industrielle de bois (Paris 1990)
ibid, Histoire de l'industrie en France (Paris, 1994)
A. Zysberg, Les Galériens (Paris 1987)
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