The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession

• Published in: The Journal of Military History Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 1169 - 1170
• Main Author: Adamiak, Stanley J.
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lexington George C. Marshall Foundation and the Virginia Military Institute 01.10.2000; Society for Military History
• Subjects: Armed forces; Historians; Historical text analysis; Historiography; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Maritime history; Mythology; Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805); Oklahoma

In the decades before World War 1, as the world's navies grappled with new technologies, naval officers struggled for new doctrines and historians developed new methods. [...]it existed in a vacuum and was more national mythology than substantive history. Beginning with historical case studies,...