K A J McLay
Biographic Data
| ID | 5044099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K A J McLay |
| GIVEN NAMES | K A J |
| FAMILY NAME | McLay |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAY K A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7929-8465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
France and the American Tropics to 1700 * In Search of Empire
In his recent survey work on early modern Europe, The Pursuit of Glory, Tim Blanning claims that the French were unenthusiastic travellers outside Europe, typically failing to show the same curiosity about overseas territory as the Spanish, Dutch or British. Preference for the familiarity of the European climes did not, however, limit the French during the seventeenth century when they established a substantial Atlantic, North American and Caribb…
Law, City and King
Journal Article Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon Get access Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon. By Michael P. Breen. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. 2007. xv + 307 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978 1 58046 236 5. K. A. J. Mclay K. A. J. Mclay University of Chester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Conserving the Enlightenment
The celebrated 17th-century French maréchal, Vicomte de Turenne, once advised his fellow soldier the Prince de Condé to ‘make few sieges and fight plenty of battles.’ In so doing Turenne was recommending the often elusive quality of decision in early modern warfare, but in terms of the contemporary forms of combat, his advice ran against the prevailing trend. The 14th-century development of gunpowder technology and consequent improved efficacy of…
Sir Francis Wheler's Caribbean and North American Expedition, 1693
The historiography of command of amphibious operations during the early modern era is typically addressed in one of two ways. One explanation discounts the treatment of command, suggesting that army—navy discord was inevitable and, in the absence of systemic amelioration of this friction, command as an operational variable always had a negative impact upon operational progress. The other approach more subtly reduces the emphasis placed upon the i…
The Cambridge History of Warfare
First published over a decade ago as the Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West , this revised text has unfortunately lost the elegant illustrations and the informative box inserts on specific topics but not its comprehensive and insightful survey of the history of warfare from the third millennium to the present day. The book’s four-part structure and the substantive material of the seventeen essays by seven contributo…
Memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet A Gentleman of Normandy
About halfway through his memoir, Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet, a French Huguenot nobleman from Normandy who in 1687 sought sanctuary in The Hague due to the persecution following Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes two years previously, wrote that in life’s ‘never-ending miscellany of good and bad’, there are few who ‘have experienced more than I of life’s unhappy aspects’. The eight sections of his memoirs covering the events of his earl…
Wellsprings of a ‘World War’
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History© 2006. The definitive version is available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FICH
Combined operations and the European theatre during the Nine Years' War, 1688-97
This articles assesses the strategic and operational purpose of England's combined army-navy operations within the European theatre during the Nine Years' War, 1688–97. Specifically, the historical consensus that these operations were simply a compromise product of the contemporary political discourse, and consistently suffered from poor preparation and implementation, is reassessed. In so doing, the article considers the combined service descent…
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Combined operations and the European theatre during the Nine Years' War, 1688-97
This articles assesses the strategic and operational purpose of England's combined army-navy operations within the European theatre during the Nine Years' War, 1688–97. Specifically, the historical consensus that these operations were simply a compromise product of the contemporary political discourse, and consistently suffered from poor preparation and implementation, is reassessed. In so doing, the article considers the combined service descent…
The Cambridge History of Warfare
First published over a decade ago as the Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West , this revised text has unfortunately lost the elegant illustrations and the informative box inserts on specific topics but not its comprehensive and insightful survey of the history of warfare from the third millennium to the present day. The book’s four-part structure and the substantive material of the seventeen essays by seven contributo…
Memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet A Gentleman of Normandy
About halfway through his memoir, Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet, a French Huguenot nobleman from Normandy who in 1687 sought sanctuary in The Hague due to the persecution following Louis XIV’s revocation of the Edict of Nantes two years previously, wrote that in life’s ‘never-ending miscellany of good and bad’, there are few who ‘have experienced more than I of life’s unhappy aspects’. The eight sections of his memoirs covering the events of his earl…
Wellsprings of a ‘World War’
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History© 2006. The definitive version is available at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/FICH
Conserving the Enlightenment
The celebrated 17th-century French maréchal, Vicomte de Turenne, once advised his fellow soldier the Prince de Condé to ‘make few sieges and fight plenty of battles.’ In so doing Turenne was recommending the often elusive quality of decision in early modern warfare, but in terms of the contemporary forms of combat, his advice ran against the prevailing trend. The 14th-century development of gunpowder technology and consequent improved efficacy of…
Sir Francis Wheler's Caribbean and North American Expedition, 1693
The historiography of command of amphibious operations during the early modern era is typically addressed in one of two ways. One explanation discounts the treatment of command, suggesting that army—navy discord was inevitable and, in the absence of systemic amelioration of this friction, command as an operational variable always had a negative impact upon operational progress. The other approach more subtly reduces the emphasis placed upon the i…
Law, City and King
Journal Article Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon Get access Law, City and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon. By Michael P. Breen. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. 2007. xv + 307 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978 1 58046 236 5. K. A. J. Mclay K. A. J. Mclay University of Chester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
France and the American Tropics to 1700 * In Search of Empire
In his recent survey work on early modern Europe, The Pursuit of Glory, Tim Blanning claims that the French were unenthusiastic travellers outside Europe, typically failing to show the same curiosity about overseas territory as the Spanish, Dutch or British. Preference for the familiarity of the European climes did not, however, limit the French during the seventeenth century when they established a substantial Atlantic, North American and Caribb…
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