Foreword ix
Vice Admiral C.A. Ritchie, AO, RAN
Contributors xii
Illustrations and figures xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
Acknowledgements xxvi
Introduction: the Navy and the birth of the nation - David Stevens
and John Reeve1
Part I Concepts and contexts 9
1 The Navy for the nation: a shared responsibility - George
Baer11
2 The Royal Navy in the Pacific: sea power and imperial endeavour -
Geoffrey Till 23
3 'The last word in outward splendour': the cult of the Navy and
the imperial age - Jan R+#252;ger 48
Part II The Navy and the nation 67
4 Naval medicine and the European settlement of Australia - Neil
Westphalen 69
5 The search for a strategic sea-base and the founding of Australia
- Tom Frame 84
6 The long triangulation: naval hydrography and the Great Barrier
Reef, 1848-1973 - Colin Jones 108
7 Our land is girt by sea: popular depictions of naval imagery in
the national press, 1908-1918 - Robert Crawford 123
8 The Royal Australian navy in Au
A former naval officer, David Stevens is a graduate of the
University of New South Wales and the Australian National
University, and is currently Director of Strategic and Historical
Studies within the Sea Power Centre - Australia. He has written and
edited several books on maritime strategy and naval history.
John Reeve is Senior Lecturer and Osborne Fellow in Naval History
at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence
Force Academy. He has written extensively on early modern and
contemporary diplomatic and strategic issues.
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