Islamic Seapower During The Age Of Fighting Sail Philip Macdougall by Philip Macdougall 9781783272303, 1783272309 instant download after payment.

Studies of the "Age of Fighting Sail" have tended to focus on the British or American navies, or sometimes on those of France or Spain. However, there were also at this time very significant navies built by the Islamic powers: theNorth African Barbary states, whose ships, allegedly pirates, plagued Mediterranean shipping and raided even as far as Cornwall and the south coast of Ireland; the Ottoman Empire, which built some of the largest sailing warshipsever; the navies of Arabian and Indian rulers and of Persia, which were forces to be reckoned with in the Indian Ocean; and more. This book presents a comprehensive survey of Islamic seapower from about the beginning of the seventeenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century, charting the rise and fall of different Islamic navies. It focuses on strategy, examining the development and implementation of naval policy and exploring the technology that supported it. It considers the wars Islamic navies participated in, covers all the areas in which Islamic navies operated, and relates Islamic naval power to wider international power politics. The book highlights in particularthe importance of the large Ottoman navy, which influenced and gave a lead to other Islamic naval powers.
PHILIP MACDOUGALL was formerly a Lecturer in the Department of Economic History at the University of Kent. He isthe author and editor of several books on maritime history, including The Naval Mutinies of 1797 (Boydell, 2011) and Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India, 1660-1800 (Boydell, 2014).
Table of Contents
Part One: The Ottoman State Navy in the West: A Systems Failure
Metamorphosis
Galleons to Attack Galleons
Types of Naval Officers
Çesme
The Reforms of Selim III
Navarino
Part Two: North African States and Provinces
Zenith of the North African Ghazi States
To the Shores of Tripoli
Egypt - a Periodic Maritime Interest
Part Three: The Indian Ocean
The Coastal Waters of Arabia
The Muslim States of India
Conclusion
Bibliography