Alan James

Alan James is a Reader in International History in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and for 2022-23 a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Paris.  He is an historian of early modern warfare, particularly naval warfare, and of the pre-Revolutionary French state.  He is a trustee of the ‘British Commission for Maritime History’ and a member of the ‘Society for Nautical Research’ and  the ‘Soçiété  Française d’Histoire Maritime’.

The projet 

Title: The Nature of War: Reassessing the Historical Relationship between Science and War

Keywords: naval history; history of science; France; modern war

Selected publications

• Irene Polinskaya, Alan James, and Ioannis Papadogiannakis, eds, Religion and War: From Antiquity to Early Modernity (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2023) 
• J.D. Davies, Alan James, and Gijs Rommelse, eds, Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c.1500-1815 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), pp.vii+337.  ISBN: 978-0-367-32128-4 
• Alan James, Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza and Malcolm Murfett, European Navies and the Conduct of War (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), pp.ix+302.  ISBN: 978-0-415-67891-9
• Alan James, ‘French Sea Power in the Utrecht Era: “Balance of Power” and the Strategic Context of Louis XIV’s Navy’, in Paul Kennedy and Evan Wilson, eds, Navies in Multi-Polar Worlds: from the Age of Sail to the Present (Naval Institute Press, 2021). 
• Alan James, ‘Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot Influence on Early English Sea Power’, in Richard Blakemore and James Davey, eds, The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain (University of Amsterdam Press, 2020).