Phillips O'Brien

British and American Naval Power (eBook, PDF)

Politics and Policy, 1900-1936

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

U.S. and British naval power developed in quite different ways in the early 20th century before the Second World War. This study compares, contrasts, and evaluates both British and American naval power as well as the politics that led to the development of each. Naval power was the single greatest manifestation of national power for both countries. Their armies were small and their air forces only existed for part of the period covered. For Great Britain, naval power was vital to her very existence, and for the U.S., naval power was far and away the most effective tool the country could use to exercise armed influence around the world. Therefore, the decisions made about the relative strengths of the two navies were in many ways the most important strategic choices the British and American governments ever made. An important book for military historians and those interested in the exercise and the extension of power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313370342
• Artikelnr.: 37831499

Autorenporträt

PHILLIPS PAYSON O'BRIEN is a lecturer in Modern History at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. From 1991 until 1996 he was both the Mellon Research Fellow in American History at Cambridge University and a Drapers Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Introduction Before the War Naval Policy in Great Britain and
the United States British Naval Power from the Two Power Standard to 1908
Theodore Roosevelt and American Naval Power The 1909 Naval Estimates
Crisis From Taft to Wilson The Inter-War Years Anglo-American Rivalry and
the Paris Peace Conference The Washington Conference and the Question of
Naval Parity The Geneva Conference: A Crisis in Anglo-American Relations
The Highpoint and Collapse of the Naval Arms Control Process Conclusion
Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index