| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
volume 1. The age of navalism, 1890-1918 -- The master: Alfred Thayer mahan -- The architects: Theodore Roosevelt, alfred von Tirpitz, and John "Jacky" Fisher -- Scorpions in a bottle -- Rengo Kantai -- The boast of the red, white and blue -- Rush to conflict -- Standoff, 1914-1915 -- Jutland -- Terror at sea, 1915-1918: the submarine and its consequences. |
| Summary |
"[Volume 1] Traces the social issues, technological advances, and combative encounters of the international naval race from 1890 through WWI, as the largest industrial nations (U.S, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany) scrambled to secure global markets and empire, using their battleship navies as pawns of power politics"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Sea-power -- History.
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Marine engineering -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Naval history.
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Navies -- History.
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War and society.
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Marine engineering -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Naval history.
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Navies -- History.
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Sea-power -- History.
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War and society.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rose, Lisle Abbott, 1936- Power at sea. Volume 1, The age of navalism, 1890-1918. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2007 082621701X 9780826217011 (OCoLC)123440746 |
| ISBN |
9780826265593 (electronic bk.) |
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0826265596 (electronic bk.) |
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