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Disciplining the empire : politics, governance, and the rise of the British navy /
"Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves" goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the world's greatest empire on the basis of sea power has led many to assume that the Royal Navy's place in British life was unchallenged. Yet, as Sarah Kinkel shows, the Navy was t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 189. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Seventeenth-century foundations
- Walpolean imperial and naval policy
- Disorder, discipline, and the politics of naval reform
- The Seven Years War and the patriot alternative to professionalization
- The authoritarian navy and the crisis of empire
- Conclusion: The American Revolutionary War.