Select Publications
Books
, 1989, Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Book Chapters
, 2024, 'Naval Politicians or Gentlemanly Technocrats?', in The Navy Chiefs Australia's naval leaders, 1911 - 1997, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, pp. 1 - 26, https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/permalink/61UNSW_INST/1m02euc/alma9951621244501731
, 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