Anna Brinkman (King's College London)

Balancing Strategy

Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War

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Produktbeschreibung

Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to show how neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare and how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781009425568
• ISBN-10: 1009425560
• Artikelnr.: 69519128

Autorenporträt

Anna Brinkman is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and co-director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. She is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maritime strategy and international law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Seapower and its Relationship to Strategy and Law: Framework
1. Seapower and strategy
2. Law and seapower
Part II. The Dutch Case Studies: 3. Personalities and policies: the Anglo-Dutch context
4. Whose goods are these? The Maria Theresa and the America in the High Court of Admiralty
5. Quelling the crisis: the Court of Prize
Appeal and the fate of the Maria Theresa and the America
Part III. The Spanish Case Studies: 6. Kings and merchants: the legal, political, and domestic contexts of Spanish foreign policy
7. Forging arguments: Spanish ships in the High Court of Admiralty
8. Death comes for the ambassador: Anglo-Spanish diplomacy and the San Juan Baptista in the Court of Prize Appeal
9. Reactive foreign policy and the end of Spanish neutrality: the Jesús, Maria, y José in the Court of Prize Appeal
Conclusion.