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The sea in history. La mer dans l'histoire. The modern world = La période contemporaine /
An assessment of how important the sea has been in the development of modern history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; General introduction and acknowledgements by Christian Buchet; Introduction générale et remercients par Christian Buchet; Introduction (English); Introduction (français); The sea and seapower within the international system; Germany, 1870-1914: a military empire turns to the sea; The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1937-1942; The US as a new naval power, 1890-1919; World war suspended and resumed: Russia, 1919-1940; Freedom and control of the seas, 1856-1919; UNCLOS and the modern law of the sea
- New navies and maritime powersBritain, 1815-1850: naval power or sea power?; Free trade, industrialization and the global economy, 1815-1914; Coal and the sea; Shipbuilding and power: some reflections; Maintaining naval hegemony in the industrial age: Britain, 1850-1889; Naval armaments races, 1889-1922; The British Empire and the war at sea, 1914-1918; Steaming worldwide waters: adaptation and transformation in the Netherlands; Austria-Hungary: an inland empire looks to the sea; The Ottoman Empire and the sea, 1789-1922; Empire and trade without a major navy: Portugal
- Italy, 1861-1914: did the sea build a state and an empire?Imperial failure of the industrial age: Spain, 1805-1898; Denmark: a small power with a growing shipping industry; Sweden and the sea in the 19th century; Navies, internal order and trade in South America, 1830-1914; The sea and the American Civil War; The wider Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries; Ship canals; Oil and water; Imperial failure in the industrial age: China, 1842-1911; China turns to the sea, 1912-1990; India and the sea
- Les îles d'Océanie et l'ouverture sur la mer à l'heure de la première mondialisation contemporaineMaritime labour; Fisheries; Geographical determinism and the growth of the American whaling and sealing industries; La France et la mer, 1815-1914; Russia tries the new naval technologies, 1815-1914; The First World War and Japan: from the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to the Washington Treaty; The sea in the Great War; The Mediterranean and World War I; Germany in World War One: naval strategy and warfare; The sea in German grand strategy, 1919-1939/40
- The case of Germany in the first part of World War II, 1939-1942Britain on the defensive, 1939-1942; Britain and the sea, 1943-1945; The Washington Treaty era, 1919-1936: naval arms limitation; The Washington Treaty era: neutralising the Pacific; The United States and the Second World War; The sea as a decisive factor in the Second World War; The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919-1940; The Italian offensive, 1940-1941; The sea and the Cold War; NATO as a maritime alliance in the Cold War; The sea and the Soviet Empire; The sea and the economic slump, 1919-1939