Le marine militari contemporanee, Storiografia e recente letteratura

During the last two decades, researches in Maritime and Naval History were subject of a huge expansion and renewal. Contemporary Naval history freed from the technical dimension and the history of wars at sea, to interact more with political, economic and social history. Italy seems to have been isolated from this historiographical renewal. The article aims to present to the Italian reader a synopsis of the recent developments of contemporary naval history on the international stage, showing how today making naval history is a path for a better comprehension of the last two centuries. Indeed, the centrality of navies as instruments of international relations, or as symbols of the modern state, the way in which they operate as think-thanks for political and cultural life, allows an in depth-look through the historical problems of contemporary history, because of navies stood at the centre of modern states life.