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Dutch Naval Decline and British Sea-power Identity in the Eighteenth Century
The Mariner's Mirror Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1080/00253359.2020.1736396
Gijs Rommelse

During the eighteenth century, various British authors analysed the decline of Dutch naval power. Anticipating the politico-cultural frame of reference of the British political nation, they invoked the memory of the seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch wars to dramatize the failure of Dutch sea power. They disagreed about the causes of this development, but seemed unanimous in their conviction that the British nation should not suffer a similar fate. Their choice of the Dutch Republic as an apt lesson in naval failure was motivated by the perceived politico-cultural similarities between both nations. The Dutch were seen as a copy of the ‘self’ – Protestant, globalizing, commercially oriented and averse to absolutist oppression – but they had somehow strayed from the right naval path. Thus, their analytical interest in Dutch naval failure originated from an ideological interpretation of British identity and consequently reinforced and enriched this cultural construct.

中文翻译:

18 世纪荷兰海军衰落与英国海权认同

在 18 世纪,多位英国作家分析了荷兰海军力量的衰落。他们预见到英国政治国家的政治文化参照系,援引十七世纪英荷战争的记忆来戏剧化荷兰海权的失败。他们不同意这种发展的原因,但似乎一致认为英国民族不应遭受类似的命运。他们选择荷兰共和国作为海军失败的恰当教训,其动机是两国之间明显的政治文化相似性。荷兰人被视为“自我”的复制品——新教、全球化、商业导向和反对专制压迫——但他们不知何故偏离了正确的海军道路。因此,
更新日期:2020-04-02
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