Section 1. Navies and national identities
Groom of the sea: Venetian sovereignty between power and myth / Luciano Pezzolo
National flags as essential elements of Dutch naval ideology, 1570-1800 / Gijs Rommelse
Towards a scientific navy: institutional identity and Spain's Eighteenth-Century Navy / Catherine Scheybeler
The French Navy from Louis XV to Napoleon I: what role and by what means? / Patrick Villiers
Section 2. Monarchical Projects
Fleets and states in a composite Catholic monarchy: Spain c. 1500-1700 / Christopher Storrs
Great Neptunes of the main: myths, mangled histories, and maritime monarchy in the Stuart Navy, 1603-1714 / J.D. Davies
Colbert and La Royale: dynastic ambitions and imperial ideals in France / Alan James
Section 3. Communities of violence
Corsairs in Tunis from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries: a matter of religion and economics / Sadok Boubaker
Transnational Calvinist cooperation and mastery of the sea in the late sixteenth century / D.J.B. Trim
Shadow states and ungovernable ships: The ideology of early modern piracy / Claire Jowitt
Greeks into privateers: law and language of commerce raiding under the Imperial Russian flag, 1760s-1790s / Julia Leikin
Section 4. Constructing strategies
Kingship, religion and history: Swedish naval ideology, 1500-1830 / Lars Ericson Wolke
Neutrality at sea: Scandinavian responses to 'great power' maritime warfare, 1651-1713 / Steve Murdoch
Naval ideology and its operational impact in eighteenth century Britain / Richard Harding
Debating the purpose of a navy in a new republic: the United States of America, 1775-1815 / John B. Hattendorf
Section 5. Afterword / Andrew Lambert