Author: E.-E.. Genner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
On the Causes and Conditions of Naval Supremacy...
Under what conditions is naval supremacy acquired and maintained by nations? An essay
Author: Frederic Thomas Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
In Defence of Naval Supremacy
Author: Jon Tetsuro Sumida
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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.
On the Causes and Conditions of Naval Supremacy
On the Causes and Coditions of Naval Supremacy
The Politics of Naval Supremacy
Author: Gerald Sandford Graham
Publisher: Cambridge : U.P.
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge : U.P.
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Under what Conditions is Naval Supremacy Acquired and Maintained?
Under what Conditions is Naval Supremacy Acquired and Maintained by Nations?
Author: Frederick Thomas Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
The Evil Necessity
Author: Denver Brunsman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
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
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813933528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
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