Doing naval history : essays toward improvement

Since 1984, John B. Hattendorf has been the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History and Director of the Advanced Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. He earned his bachelor's degree in history at Kenyon College, his master's degree at Brown University, and his doctor of philosophy degree from the show more University of Oxford. Additionally, Kenyon College has awarded him the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters. He is the adjunct director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime History at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, and has been elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Naval Science and of the Academie du Var (France), Vice President of the Hakluyt Society and of the North American Society of Oceanic Historians, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK). show less