Militarism in a global age : naval ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I /
The author explores the far-reaching ambitions of US and German elite naval officers before WWI as they advance navalism. Viewing the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable, they channeled in different directions as they developed contrasting ou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | United States in the world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : maritime militarism in two modern nation-states
- World power in a global age
- Big-power confrontations over empire
- Maritime force, threat, and war
- War of battle fleets
- Planning for victory
- Commerce, law, and the limitation of war
- Naval elites and the state
- Manufacturing consent
- A politics of social imperialism
- Of sciences, sea power, and strategy
- Between leadership and intraservice conflict
- Conclusion : navalism and its trajectories.