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"Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize appeal during the Seven Years' War to show how neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare and how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage"--
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Seapower and its Relationship to Strategy and Law: Framework; 1. Seapower and strategy; 2. Law and seapower; Part II. The Dutch Case Studies: 3. Personalities and policies: the Anglo-Dutch context; 4. Whose goods are these? The Maria Theresa and the America in the High Court of Admiralty; 5. Quelling the crisis: the Court of Prize; Appeal and the fate of the Maria Theresa and the America; Part III. The Spanish Case Studies: 6. Kings and merchants: the legal, political, and domestic contexts of Spanish foreign policy; 7. Forging arguments: Spanish ships in the High Court of Admiralty; 8. Death comes for the ambassador: Anglo-Spanish diplomacy and the San Juan Baptista in the Court of Prize Appeal; 9. Reactive foreign policy and the end of Spanish neutrality: the Jesús, Maria, y José in the Court of Prize Appeal; Conclusion.
About the author
Anna Brinkman is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and co-director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. She is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maritime strategy and international law.
Summary
Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to show how neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare and how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage.
Foreword
Balancing Strategy examines how neutrality and prize-law shaped eighteenth century maritime strategy, and the development of seapower.
