The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815. By N.A.M. Rodger (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. lxv plus 907 pp.).
Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. By Paul A. Gilje (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xiv plus 344 pp.).
The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century. By Kathleen Wilson. (London: Routledge, 2003. xiii plus 282 pp.).
A New Imperial History: Culture, ...