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The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815. By Jonathan R. DuU. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-80321930-4. Maps. Figures. Notes and further reading. Index. Pp. viii, 250. $29.95.
It is a long-established and well-known flaw in naval history that there are insufficient studies that provide more than one national perspective of a particular period or war. With the recent and lamentable death of Jan Glete, the finest exponent of a multi-lingual trans -national approach to naval history, this flaw is once again particularly uncomfortable. Luckily, however, we have Jonathan Dull to ease the pain. Dull is of course famous for his deeply considered and rigorous studies of the French navy: The French Navy and the Seven Years' War and The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787. Both are books without equal and Dull has now turned his expertise to a much broader comparative study of the French and British navies in the...