Select Publications
Books
1989, Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
,Book Chapters
2015, 'Maritime Strategy 1914: Some Observations on the Issues', in Frame T (ed.), Maritime Strategy 1914, Barton Books, Canberra, pp. 133 - 142
,2011, 'U.S. Naval Operations and Contemporary Geopolitics: The War on Terror and the New Great Game in the Early 21st Century', in Elleman BA; Paine SCM (ed.), Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare: Peripheral campaigns and new theatres of naval warfare, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 182 - 196
,2010, 'British Naval Strategy: War on a Global Scale', in Stoker D; Hagan KJ; McMaster MT (ed.), Strategy in the American War of Independence: A Global Approach, Routledge, London, pp. 73 - 99
,2007, 'Triumph or Tragedy?', in Stevens D; Reeve J (ed.), Sea Power Ashore and in the Air, Halstead Press, Sydney, pp. 262 - 272
,2006, 'Maritime Operations and Counter-terrorism: an Australian View', in McCaffrie J (ed.), Positioning Navies for the Future: Challenge and Response, Sea Power Centre-Australia and Halstead Press, Sydney, pp. 91 - 110
,2005, 'Alliance Warfare in Early Modern Europe', in Dennis P; Grey J (ed.), Entangling Alliances: Coalition Warfare in the Twentieth Century, Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, pp. 19 - 37
,2005, 'Conclusion: Maritime Nations - The Lucky League', in Stevens D; Reeve J (ed.), The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 370 - 383
,2005, 'Introduction: The navy and the birth of the nation', in Stevens D; Reeve J (ed.), The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 1 - 8
,2003, 'Introduction: An Anatomy of the Face of Naval Battle', in Reeve J; Stevens D (ed.), The Face of Naval Battle: The human experience of modern war at sea, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 3 - 37
,2003, 'Terrorism and Territoriality: A New Maritime Strategic Era', in Heath R; Snushall B (ed.), Protecting Maritime Resources, Sea Power Centre, Canberra, pp. 67 - 68
,2001, 'Mahan, Corbett and Modern Maritime Strategy', in Smith H (ed.), The Strategists, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, pp. 41 - 53
,2001, 'Naval Warfare 1600-1700', in Messenger C (ed.), Readers` Guide to Military History, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, pp. 435 - 437
,2001, 'The Development of Naval Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1500-2000', in Geoffrey Till (ed.), Seapower at the Millennium, Sutton Publishing/Royal Navy, Stroud/Portsmouth, pp. 134 - 143
,2001, 'The Rise of Modern Naval Strategy c.1580-1880', in Stevens D; Reeve J (ed.), Southern Trident Strategy, History, and the Rise of Australian Naval Power, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards NSW, pp. 7 - 23
,1999, 'Britain or Europe? The context of Early Modern English History: Political and Cultural, Economic and Social, Naval and Military', in Burgess G (ed.), The New British History: Founding a Modern State 1603-1715, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London, pp. 287 - 312
,1998, 'Secret alliance and Protestant agitation in two kingdoms: the early Caroline background to the Irish rebellion of 1641', in Gentles I; Morrill J; Worden B (ed.), Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 19 - 35
,1996, 'Britain and the world under the Stuarts, 1603-1689', in Morrill J (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 416 - 431
,Edited Books
Reeve LJ; Stevens D, (ed.), 2007, Sea Power Ashore and in the Air, Halstead Press, Sydney
Reeve LJ; Stevens D, (ed.), 2005, The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW
Reeve LJ, (ed.), 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography., OUP, Oxford
Reeve LJ; Stevens D, (ed.), 2003, The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea., Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW
Reeve LJ; Stevens D, (ed.), 2001, Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power., Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW
Journal articles
2022, 'Sir Julian Corbett (1854-1922): His Place Among Maritime Strategists', Australian Naval Review, 2022, pp. 6 - 13
,2017, 'Amphibious Warfare: Some Historical Reflections', Australian Naval Review, 2017, pp. 30 - 40
,2016, ''Sir Dudley Carleton and Sir Thomas Roe: English Servants of the Queen of Bohemia and the Protestant International during the Thirty Years War'', Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 32, pp. 151 - 181
,2010, 'Naval History and Joint Professional Military Education: a personal view', Australian Defence Force Journal, 2010, pp. 14 - 20
,2009, 'Masters of History: Three Students of Trinity College', Victorian Historical Journal, 80, pp. 76 - 90
,2008, 'The Relevance of the Surface Warship as a Weapons System: An Australian View', Australian Defence Force Journal, 177, pp. 62 - 72
,2004, 'Benjamin Valentine, Politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2004, 'Dudley Carleton, Diplomat and Letter Writer', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2004, 'Sir Miles Hobart, Politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2004, 'Valentine Pyne, Naval Officer and Soldier', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2004, 'William Coryton, Politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2004, 'William Strode, Politician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
,2001, 'George Yule: a Tribute by Some of his Friends', Parergon: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 18, pp. 11 - 18
,1996, 'The politics of war finance in an age of confessional strife: A comparative Anglo-European view', Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 14, pp. 85 - 109
,1986, 'Quiroga's paper of 1631: a missing link in Anglo-Spanish diplomacy during the Thirty Years War', The English Historical Review, 101, pp. 913 - 926
,1986, 'Sir Robert Heath's advice for Charles I in 1629', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 59, pp. 215 - 224
,1986, 'The arguments in King's Bench in 1629 concerning the imprisonment of John Selden and other members of the House of Commons', The Journal of British Studies, 25, pp. 264 - 287
,1986, 'The legal status of the Petition of Right', The Historical Journal, 29, pp. 257 - 277
,1983, 'Sir Thomas Roe's prophecy of 1629', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 56, pp. 115 - 121
,Working Papers
2001, Maritime Strategy and Defence of the Archipelagic Inner Arc, RAN Sea Power Centre, Canberra, 5, http://dx.doi.org
,2000, The Development of Naval Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Region 1500-2000, RAN Sea Power Centre, Canberra, 4, http://dx.doi.org
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