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British naval strategy east of Suez, 1900-2000 : influences and actions /
This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but ne...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Frank Cass,
2005.
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| Colección: | Cass series--naval policy and history ;
27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Maps; Introduction; 'Wee-ah-wee'?: Britain at Weihaiwei, 1898-1930; The idea of naval imperialism: The China Squadron and the Boxer Uprising; 'Unbroken Thread': Japan. Maritime power and British Imperial Defence, 1920-32; What worth the Americans? The British strategic foreign policy-making elite's view of American maritime power in the Far East, 1933-1941; 'Looking Skyward from Below the Waves': Admiral Tom Phillips and the Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse
- 'Light Two Lanterns, the British Are Coming by Sea': Royal Navy participation in the Pacific 1944-1945The Royal Navy in Korea: Replenishment and sustainability; The Royal Navy, expeditionary operations and the End of Empire, 1956-75; The Royal Navy and Confrontation, 1963-66; The British Naval role east of Suez: An Australian perspective; The return to globalism: The Royal Navy east of Suez, 1975-2003; Select bibliography; Index