James Davey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Davey |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Davey |
| SIGNATURE | DAVEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Maritime Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0748-1404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Birth of Naval History
During the early decades of the eighteenth century, the first general naval histories were published in Britain. Individuals from a range of backgrounds claimed ownership of this new and burgeoning subject, all professing to have produced the most reliable and accurate histories of the navy. Their competing publications provoked considerable debate, with authors drawn into fighting a war of words in the national press. These disputes raised impor…
Tempest
The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the d…
In Nelson's Wake
Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar ess…
A new naval history
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood, and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of naval affairs – issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life i…
A note from the editors
Serving the State
This article investigates a governmental committee set up in 1800 to address a long-standing problem faced by the British state: how to procure a reliable and cost-effective supply of hemp. This resource, on which the Royal Navy and mercantile marine relied, could be procured only from the Russian territories of northern Europe, a dependence that had proved precarious and increasingly unreliable in the latter decades of the eighteenth century. In…
Navigating State and Society
No description available
Atlantic Empire, European War and the Naval Expeditions to South America, 1806–1807
The Napoleonic War was essentially a European conflict, but it did have an Atlantic dimension. In 1806, Lieutenant General Baird and Admiral Popham commanded an operation to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Following its seizure, Popham then mounted an ambitious and unauthorised attack on Buenos Aires, on the other side of the Atlantic. For a few months, and at a time when victory in Europe appeared elusive, people across Britain turned to the poss…
A note from the editors
Britannia’s dragon
The Welsh nation generates any number of stereotypes in the popular imagination. For many, it is a land of rugged mountains, Celtic druids and neo-romantic poetry; more recently, the mind might wan
Romalpa and Contractual Innovation
Socio‐legal studies have given relatively little attention to the mechanisms by which change occurs to the boilerplate that constitute modern contracts. Contrary to the impression left by neo‐classical contract theory (and its descendant, Chicago School law and economics), contracts are not routinely revised to provide an optimal solution. As recent empirical studies show, change is sporadic, even within high‐value contracts drafted by expert pra…
Introduction
The history of British sea power has too often been written as the history of officers and sailors. Yet maintaining and extending command of the sea involved many more groups of people inside the R
Expertise and naval administration
This article is concerned with the recognition of expertise and the degree to which this influenced public appointments in the early nineteenth century. It focuses on a number of appointments made between 1807 and 1810 to the Victualling Board, the department responsible for supplying the navy with food. Coming during a time of war, and amid a long-running debate about the role of public office-holders, these appointments proved to be politically…
Hawke, Nelson and British naval leadership, 1747–1805
Hawke, Nelson and British naval leadership, 1747–1805, by Ruddock Mackay and Michael Duffy, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2009, 240 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-8438-3499-1 The year 2009 marked the se
Supplied by the enemy
Journal Article Supplied by the enemy: the Royal Navy and the British consular service in the Baltic, 1808–12 Get access James Davey James Davey National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 85, Issue 228, May 2012, Pages 265–283, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00591.x Published: 11 April 2012
The advancement of nautical knowledge
In 1795, the Hydrographical Office was created to collate nautical charts for the use of the Royal Navy. One of its greatest challenges was to provide reliable charts for fleets sent to the Baltic Sea. The geography of this region was largely unknown to British admirals and policy-makers alike, provoking both operational and strategic issues for the naval administration. Faced with economic threats to its sources of shipbuilding resources during …
David McLean, Surgeons of the Fleet
Since the 1960s there has been a prominent trend in maritime and naval history away from the narrow studies of tactics, weaponry and admirals, to a much broader, contextualised understanding of navies as fighting forces. As result, studies of manning, dockyards, victualling, ordnance, and the transport service have abounded. Few studies of naval administration have received the same attention as medicine and health. The three volumes of C. Lloyd …
Securing the Sinews of Sea Power
This article argues that Britain's standing as a maritime nation must be considered if we are to fully understand the objectives behind British foreign policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on one of the most important challenges successive British governments faced during this period; the need to secure shipbuilding resources. Both British economic prosperity and national security depended upon the continued su…
Within Hostile Shores
Securing the Sinews of Sea Power
This article argues that Britain's standing as a maritime nation must be considered if we are to fully understand the objectives behind British foreign policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on one of the most important challenges successive British governments faced during this period; the need to secure shipbuilding resources. Both British economic prosperity and national security depended upon the continued su…
Within Hostile Shores
Navigating State and Society
No description available
Expertise and naval administration
This article is concerned with the recognition of expertise and the degree to which this influenced public appointments in the early nineteenth century. It focuses on a number of appointments made between 1807 and 1810 to the Victualling Board, the department responsible for supplying the navy with food. Coming during a time of war, and amid a long-running debate about the role of public office-holders, these appointments proved to be politically…
Supplied by the enemy
Journal Article Supplied by the enemy: the Royal Navy and the British consular service in the Baltic, 1808–12 Get access James Davey James Davey National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 85, Issue 228, May 2012, Pages 265–283, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00591.x Published: 11 April 2012
The advancement of nautical knowledge
In 1795, the Hydrographical Office was created to collate nautical charts for the use of the Royal Navy. One of its greatest challenges was to provide reliable charts for fleets sent to the Baltic Sea. The geography of this region was largely unknown to British admirals and policy-makers alike, provoking both operational and strategic issues for the naval administration. Faced with economic threats to its sources of shipbuilding resources during …
Within Hostile Shores
The advancement of nautical knowledge
In 1795, the Hydrographical Office was created to collate nautical charts for the use of the Royal Navy. One of its greatest challenges was to provide reliable charts for fleets sent to the Baltic Sea. The geography of this region was largely unknown to British admirals and policy-makers alike, provoking both operational and strategic issues for the naval administration. Faced with economic threats to its sources of shipbuilding resources during …
David McLean, Surgeons of the Fleet
Since the 1960s there has been a prominent trend in maritime and naval history away from the narrow studies of tactics, weaponry and admirals, to a much broader, contextualised understanding of navies as fighting forces. As result, studies of manning, dockyards, victualling, ordnance, and the transport service have abounded. Few studies of naval administration have received the same attention as medicine and health. The three volumes of C. Lloyd …
Securing the Sinews of Sea Power
This article argues that Britain's standing as a maritime nation must be considered if we are to fully understand the objectives behind British foreign policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on one of the most important challenges successive British governments faced during this period; the need to secure shipbuilding resources. Both British economic prosperity and national security depended upon the continued su…
Hawke, Nelson and British naval leadership, 1747–1805
Hawke, Nelson and British naval leadership, 1747–1805, by Ruddock Mackay and Michael Duffy, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2009, 240 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-8438-3499-1 The year 2009 marked the se
Supplied by the enemy
Journal Article Supplied by the enemy: the Royal Navy and the British consular service in the Baltic, 1808–12 Get access James Davey James Davey National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 85, Issue 228, May 2012, Pages 265–283, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00591.x Published: 11 April 2012
Introduction
The history of British sea power has too often been written as the history of officers and sailors. Yet maintaining and extending command of the sea involved many more groups of people inside the R
Expertise and naval administration
This article is concerned with the recognition of expertise and the degree to which this influenced public appointments in the early nineteenth century. It focuses on a number of appointments made between 1807 and 1810 to the Victualling Board, the department responsible for supplying the navy with food. Coming during a time of war, and amid a long-running debate about the role of public office-holders, these appointments proved to be politically…
Romalpa and Contractual Innovation
Socio‐legal studies have given relatively little attention to the mechanisms by which change occurs to the boilerplate that constitute modern contracts. Contrary to the impression left by neo‐classical contract theory (and its descendant, Chicago School law and economics), contracts are not routinely revised to provide an optimal solution. As recent empirical studies show, change is sporadic, even within high‐value contracts drafted by expert pra…
Atlantic Empire, European War and the Naval Expeditions to South America, 1806–1807
The Napoleonic War was essentially a European conflict, but it did have an Atlantic dimension. In 1806, Lieutenant General Baird and Admiral Popham commanded an operation to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Following its seizure, Popham then mounted an ambitious and unauthorised attack on Buenos Aires, on the other side of the Atlantic. For a few months, and at a time when victory in Europe appeared elusive, people across Britain turned to the poss…
A note from the editors
Britannia’s dragon
The Welsh nation generates any number of stereotypes in the popular imagination. For many, it is a land of rugged mountains, Celtic druids and neo-romantic poetry; more recently, the mind might wan
A note from the editors
Serving the State
This article investigates a governmental committee set up in 1800 to address a long-standing problem faced by the British state: how to procure a reliable and cost-effective supply of hemp. This resource, on which the Royal Navy and mercantile marine relied, could be procured only from the Russian territories of northern Europe, a dependence that had proved precarious and increasingly unreliable in the latter decades of the eighteenth century. In…
Navigating State and Society
No description available
A new naval history
A New Naval History brings together the most significant and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary naval history. The last few decades have witnessed a transformation in how this field is researched and understood, and this volume captures the state of a field that continues to develop apace. It examines – through the prism of naval affairs – issues of nationhood and imperialism; the legacy of Nelson; the socio-cultural realities of life i…
In Nelson's Wake
Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar ess…
The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the d…
Tempest
The Birth of Naval History
During the early decades of the eighteenth century, the first general naval histories were published in Britain. Individuals from a range of backgrounds claimed ownership of this new and burgeoning subject, all professing to have produced the most reliable and accurate histories of the navy. Their competing publications provoked considerable debate, with authors drawn into fighting a war of words in the national press. These disputes raised impor…
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