Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Maritime dreams, Meiji realities, 1868-1878
  • Parochialism and empire: Satsuma, the South Seas, and naval expansion, 1878-1889
  • Political baptism by fire: the Navy and the early Diet Sessions, 1890-1894
  • The rich rewards and rivalry of war, 1894-1904
  • War, pageantry, and propaganda in the service of naval expansion, 1905-1910
  • Coercion, pragmatism, and interservice rivalry: elite-level politics and naval expansion, 1910-1913
  • The rise and fall of Navy political fortunes, 1913-1914
  • Opportunism, expansion, and limitation: the Imperial Navy and Japan's Great War, 1914-1922.