The Naval Profession during the long 18th century

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This book seems promising:
Norbert Elias, The Genesis of the Naval Profession, University College Dublin Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-1904558804

In the same field I just added an interesting thesis from Louisiana State University on the website at http://www.ageofnelson.org/Article05.html.

I completely disagree with the conclusions of Mrs. Cavell: another case of very bad use of statistics initiated by Michael Lewis' Social history of the Navy.

More to come when I find time to expand.

Here is an article by Prof NAM Rodger: Commissioned officers' careers in the Royal Navy, 1690-1815
http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conJmrArticle.52

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Norbert Elias (1897-1990) was a prominent German sociologist (he went into exile when Hitler came to power).
The University of Dublin is publishing a Collected Edition of his Works.

The Genesis of the Naval Profession is a compilation by René Moelker and Stephen Mennell of unpublished material on the subject.

These writings are from the 1950s (contemporary to Michael Lewis' Social History) and so have to be read on the light of more recent research.

A good book anyway.

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