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Book The Politics of Naval Supremacy

Download or read book The Politics of Naval Supremacy written by Gerald Sandford Graham and published by Cambridge : U.P.. This book was released on 1965 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emergence of Britain s Global Naval Supremacy

Download or read book The Emergence of Britain s Global Naval Supremacy written by Richard Harding and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy.

Book In Defence of Naval Supremacy

Download or read book In Defence of Naval Supremacy written by Jon Tetsuro Sumida and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906. Based on intensive and extensive archival research, the book strives to explain vital financial and technical matters which enable readers to observe the complex interplay of fiscal, technical, strategic, and personal factors that shaped the course of British naval decision-making during the critical quarter century that preceded the outbreak of the First World War.

Book Mayday

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  • Author : Seth Cropsey
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 2013-04-04
  • ISBN : 9781590207895
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mayday written by Seth Cropsey and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the United States Navy has shrunk while the maritime presence of other nations, particularly China, has expanded, and discusses the implications for American naval superiority and strategy.

Book The Politics of Nval Supremacy

Download or read book The Politics of Nval Supremacy written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British and American Naval Power

Download or read book British and American Naval Power written by Phillips O'Brien and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-04-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. and British naval power developed in quite different ways in the early 20th century before the Second World War. This study compares, contrasts, and evaluates both British and American naval power as well as the politics that led to the development of each. Naval power was the single greatest manifestation of national power for both countries. Their armies were small and their air forces only existed for part of the period covered. For Great Britain, naval power was vital to her very existence, and for the U.S., naval power was far and away the most effective tool the country could use to exercise armed influence around the world. Therefore, the decisions made about the relative strengths of the two navies were in many ways the most important strategic choices the British and American governments ever made. An important book for military historians and those interested in the exercise and the extension of power.

Book The Evil Necessity

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  • Author : Denver Brunsman
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2013-03-19
  • ISBN : 0813933528
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies

Book The Political Influence of Naval Force in History

Download or read book The Political Influence of Naval Force in History written by J. Cable and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-06-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five centuries, since Vasco de Gama's ships began making the Indian Ocean a Portuguese lake, many governments used naval force to serve their political purposes. The sceptre of the seas passed from one nation to another, but political success did not always reward the strongest navy. This selective, international history of naval force as a political instrument, whether in peace or war, ranges from Calicut, navally cannonaded in 1501, to Baghdad, assailed by sea launched missiles in 1991.

Book In Irons

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  • Author : Richard Buel
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300073881
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book In Irons written by Richard Buel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogens undertitel er et amerikansk udtryk for at "Ligge i vindøjet" og der henvises til kolonikrigene, der så deres begyndelse i 1775. Således var vindøjet her den engelske flådes blokade af de nordamerikanske fristater. Den økonomiske og militære historie hænger sammen, og denne bog foretager en bedre end normalt set videnskabeligt forsket årsagssammenhæng, idet den som hovedkonklusion ser på den engelske flådeblokades påvirkning af landbrugssektoren og videre på den skade fristaterne påførtes ved engelsk besættelse af betydningsfulde landbrugsområder og manglende øversøiske eksportmuligheder for disse oprørske stater.

Book The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery

Download or read book The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery written by Paul Kennedy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History

Book The Spectre of Navalism

Download or read book The Spectre of Navalism written by Julian Stafford Corbett and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir John Fisher s Naval Revolution

Download or read book Sir John Fisher s Naval Revolution written by Nicholas A. Lambert and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and domestic politicians and social reformers before World War I. It also explains how Britain's naval leaders responded to non-military, cultural challenges under the direction of Adimiral Sir John Fisher.

Book Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind

Download or read book Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind written by Peter Padfield and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires. This extraordinary book charts the growth of these powers in various western countries while revealing the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself. As noted historian Peter Padfield demonstrates, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise, a historical lesson of burning relevance today. Maritime Supremacydetails the struggles of the first supreme maritime powers of the modern age, the Dutch and the British, and ends with the emergence of the ultimate successor, the United States world power was won. Immersing the reader in the drama of events, including riveting great sea battles, Padfield challenges our view of the evolution of today's world. "Outstanding . . . offers up naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as any you will find in Patrick O'Brian." (John Lehman, former secretary of the US Navy, The Wall Street Journal) "[Padfield's] comprehension of the context and his natural, understandable absorption in the details are expressed in fine writing." (Stephen Howarth, Naval History)

Book Battleships of the World

Download or read book Battleships of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England  1893

Download or read book Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England 1893 written by W. Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book British Naval Supremacy and Anglo American Antagonisms  1914 1930

Download or read book British Naval Supremacy and Anglo American Antagonisms 1914 1930 written by Donald J. Lisio and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none, ' one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the United States offered to substitute naval equality for its emerging naval supremacy, the British, nonetheless, used the resulting two major international arms-control conferences of the 1920s to ensure its continued naval dominance"--

Book Under what conditions is naval supremacy acquired and maintained by nations  An essay

Download or read book Under what conditions is naval supremacy acquired and maintained by nations An essay written by Frederic Thomas Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: