Evan Wilson & AnnaSara Hammar 
Eighteenth-Century Naval Officers [PDF ebook] 
A Transnational Perspective

Introduction.- Britain: Practicing Aggression.- France: Hope and Glory, Pride and Prejudice.- Spain: The New Model Officer.- The Dutch Republic: In the Shadow of a Glorious Past.- Sweden: Seeking Foreign Waters.- Denmark: The Challenges of Peace.- Russia: The Officers of the Baltic Fleet.- Conclusion.

Evan Wilson is Assistant Professor in the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the U.S. Naval War College. His research focuses on European and American naval history from the age of sail to the twentieth century. He is the author of A Social History of British Naval Officers, 1775–1815 (2017) and the co-editor of Strategy and the Sea (2016).
  Anna Sara Hammar is Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the editor of
Forum Navale, published by the Swedish association for Maritime History. Her thesis, “Between Chaos and Control: Social Order in the Swedish Navy, 1670-1716, ” received the Jan Glete Prize in 2014. She is currently working on a book project about the history of the Swedish navy.

Jakob Seerup is a curator at Bornholm’s Museum, Denmark. He has worked as a curator and researcher at the Royal Danish Naval Museum, the Danish Arsenal Museum, andthe National Museum of Denmark. He has written extensively about the Danish navy in the age of sail, specializing in the cultural history of the navy. His research has been published in both Danish and international journals.