Nicholas A. M. Rodger
British naval historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicholas Andrew Martin Rodger FSA FRHistS FBA is a historian of the Royal Navy and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Life and academia The son of Lieutenant Commander Ian Alexander Rodger, Royal Navy, of Arundel, Sussex, and Sara Mary, née Perceval, Rodger was educated at Ampleforth College and University College, Oxford, where he earned his D.Phil. degree in 1974 with a thesis titled Naval policy and cruiser design, 1865–1890. He served for seventeen years at the Public Record Office as an assistant keeper of public records, 1974–1991. After resigning from the public service, he began a Naval History of Britain with the support of the National Maritime Museum, the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research. The museum gave him the title of Anderson Senior Research Fellow, 1992–1998. In 1999, he moved to the University of Exeter as senior lecturer, and the following year was appointed professor of naval history. In 2007, he was elected a senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He served as honorary secretary of the Navy Records Society from 1976 to 1990. He is also a member and fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society . He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. In 2015 he made a fellow of the Society for Nautical Research.
Nicholas A. M. Rodger's Published Works
Published Works
- The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy (1987) (235)
- The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (2004) (221)
- The safeguard of the sea : a naval history of Britain (1998) (84)
- Honour and duty at sea, 1660–1815 (2002) (35)
- Commissioned officers' careers in the Royal Navy, 1690–1815 (2001) (26)
- From the ‘military revolution’ to the ‘fiscal-naval state’ (2011) (25)
- The insatiable earl : a life of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792 (1980) (23)
- Representing the Royal Navy: British sea power, 1750–1815. By Margarette Lincoln. Aldershot: Ashgate, in conjunction with the National Maritime Museum, 2002. Pp. xiii+226. ISBN 0-7546-0830-1. £35.00. (2003) (19)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF BROADSIDE GUNNERY, 1450–1650 (1996) (17)
- The Law and Language of Private Naval Warfare (2014) (17)
- :Neptune and the Netherlands: State, Economy, and War at Sea in the Renaissance (2006) (15)
- THE DARK AGES OF THE ADMIRALTY, 1869–85 (1975) (11)
- Sea-Power and Empire, 1688–1793 (1998) (10)
- A guide to the naval records in the National Archives of the UK (2006) (10)
- QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE MYTH OF SEA-POWER IN ENGLISH HISTORY (2004) (10)
- War as an Economic Activity in the “Long” Eighteenth Century (2010) (9)
- Naval power in the twentieth century (1996) (7)
- The idea of naval strategy in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2006) (6)
- The Naval Miscellany (2009) (5)
- Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years’ War, 1755–1763 (2004) (5)
- Recent Books on the Royal Navy of the Eighteenth Century (1999) (5)
- Stragglers and Deserters from the Royal Navy During the Seven Years' War1 (1984) (5)
- Naval Records for Genealogists (1988) (4)
- IMAGE AND REALITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NAVAL TACTICS (2003) (4)
- Guns and Sails in the First Phase of English Colonization, 1500–1650 (1998) (4)
- Navies and armies : the Anglo-Dutch relationship in war and peace, 1688-1988 (1990) (4)
- The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, by Denver Brunsman (2014) (3)
- Shield of Empire: The Royal Navy and Scotland. By Brian Lavery. Pp. 320. ISBN: 9781841585130. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2007. £30.00. (2009) (3)
- THE DESIGN OF THE INCONSTANT (1975) (3)
- Essays in Naval History, from Medieval to Modern (2009) (3)
- :Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy (2009) (2)
- Nelson, navy & nation : the Royal Navy & the British people 1688-1815 (2013) (2)
- The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service since 1945 by Peter Hennessy and James Jinks (2016) (2)
- BRITISH BELTED CRUISERS (1978) (2)
- THE MUTINY IN THE JOHN AND THOMAS (1984) (2)
- RECENT WORK IN BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY, 1750–1815 (2008) (2)
- Ordnance Records and the Gunpowder Plot (1980) (2)
- THE DARK AGES OF THE ADMIRALTY, 1869–85: Part II: Change and Decay, 1874–80 (1976) (2)
- The Insatiable Earl: The Life of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. (1994) (1)
- Nelson and the British Navy: Seamanship, Leadership, Originality (2005) (1)
- THE FIRST LIGHT CRUISERS (1979) (1)
- British Naval Warfare in the 'Long' 18th Century: A Warrior Elite? (2005) (1)
- The Royal Navy in the Era of the World Wars: Was it fit for purpose? (2011) (1)
- Book Review: The Ocean Bards: British Poetry and the War at Sea, 1793–1815 (2009) (1)
- Review Essay—Part and Parcel of a Nation’s Totality (2006) (1)
- THE DARK AGES OF THE ADMIRALTY, 1869–85: Part III: Peace, Retrenchment and Reform, 1880–85 (1976) (1)
- Nelson's Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar (review) (2007) (1)
- War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 (review) (2011) (1)
- Strategy and the Sea (2016) (1)
- THE MAURICE BOND MEMORIAL LECTURE 2006: DROWNING IN A SEA OF PAPER: BRITISH ARCHIVES OF NAVAL WARFARE (2007) (1)
- Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy Crisis in the Age of Palmerston, by Howard J. FullerShaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, c.1830–1906, by Don Leggett (2016) (0)
- Roger Morriss, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850: Public Trust and Government Ideology (2004) (0)
- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW RECENT WORK IN BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY (2008) (0)
- Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World. By Andrew Lambert. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii+400. $30.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). (2022) (0)
- ANSWERS (2002) (0)
- A naval history of World War I (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Nelson, Navy and Nation: The Royal Navy and the British People 1688–1815 (2014) (0)
- Book Review: The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513–1713 (2011) (0)
- The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy: Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755–1815, by Roger Morriss (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War (2012) (0)
- MICHAEL S. REIDY. Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2008. Pp. xiv, 389. $40.00 (2009) (0)
- Book Review: Portsmouth Dockyard Papers, 1852-1869: From Wood to Iron. Edited by C.I. Hamilton. Portsmouth Record Series, 10. Hampshire County Council. 2005. lvi + 450 pp.₤30.00. ISBN 1 85975 759 6 (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson (2001) (0)
- ANSWERS (2008) (0)
- Book Review: The Royal Navy and the German Threat, 1901–1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Tradein a War against Germany (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Britain, Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime Conflict (2011) (0)
- British naval manpower during the French Revolutionary wars, 1793-1802 (2012) (0)
- SUMMARIES/ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN/PRÉCIS (2010) (0)
- Christian IV and His Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy, 1596–1648 (2008) (0)
- The Drake-Norris expedition: English Naval strategy in the sixteenth century. (1996) (0)
- Naval policy and cruiser design, 1865-1890 (1974) (0)
- Book Review: Bismarck: The Story behind the Destruction of the Pride of Hitler’s Navy (2005) (0)
- The Genesis of Trafalgar (2005) (0)
- The sea officers: gentility and professionalism in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Educating the Royal Navy: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Education for Officers (2008) (0)
- Reviews (2012) (0)
- Swedish Naval Administration, 1521–1721: Resource Flows and Organisational Capabilities, by Jan Glete (2011) (0)
- Reviews (2011) (0)
- Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer, by James McDermott (New Haven/London: Yale V.P., 2001; pp. 509. £25). (2001) (0)
- Book Review: Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850: Public Trust and Government Ideology (2004) (0)
- The nature of victory at sea (2005) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Horatio Nelson: A Controversial Hero By Marianne Czisnik (2006) (0)
- Book Review: The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572–1661 (2005) (0)
- Book Review: The Treasure of the (2007) (0)
- The Naval Mutinies of 1797: Unity and Perseverance, ed. Ann Veronica Coats and Philip MacDougall (2012) (0)
- Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon, by Barry Gough (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (2007) (0)
- Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (review) (2003) (0)
- Sustaining the Fleet, 1793–1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State, by Roger Knight and Martin WilcoxThe British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793–1815: Management Competence and Incompetence, by Janet MacDonald (2011) (0)
- The Culture of Naval War, c. 1860–1945 (2017) (0)
- The Armada in the Public Records (1988) (0)
- Book Review: Frigates and Foremasts: The North American Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters 1745–1815 (2003) (0)
- Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887–1918, by Shawn T. Grimes (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Policing the Seas: Anglo-American Relations and the Equatorial Atlantic, 1819–1865. Research in Maritime History (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Amphibious Warfare 1000–1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (2006) (0)
- Review: Ashore and Afloat: The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard before 1820 (2005) (0)
- Representing the Royal Navy: British sea power, 1750-1815 (Book) (2003) (0)
- Down to the sea (1993) (0)
- Hotshots at sea (1994) (0)
- Reviews : Jan Glete, Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500-1860, 2 vols, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, ISBN 91-22-01565-5, 1993; 752 pp,; SEK 460 (1994) (0)
- The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901: The Sea and Global History, ed. Miles Taylor (2015) (0)
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