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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778296003321

Autore

Rose Lisle Abbott <1936->

Titolo

Power at sea . Volume 1 The age of navalism / / Lisle A. Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-8262-6559-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

359.009/041

Soggetti

Sea-power - History

Marine engineering - Technological innovations - Social aspects

Naval history

Navies - History

War and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. The age of navalism, 1890-1918 The master: Alfred Thayer mahan The architects: Theodore Roosevelt, alfred von Tirpitz, and John "Jacky" Fisher Scorpions in a bottle Rengo Kantai The boast of the red, white and blue Rush to conflict Standoff, 1914-1915 Jutland Terror at sea, 1915-1918: the submarine and its consequences

Sommario/riassunto

"[Volume 1] Traces the social issues, technological advances, and combative encounters of the international naval race from 1890 through WWI, as the largest industrial nations (U.S, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) scrambled to secure global markets and empire, using their battleship navies as pawns of power politics"--Provided by publisher