Bernard Semmel

Liberalism and Naval Strategy

Ideology, Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica

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Produktbeschreibung

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their suspicion of force as government policy helped to inform critical choices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781032549262
• ISBN-10: 1032549262
• Artikelnr.: 69949307

Autorenporträt

Bernard Semmel

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sea Power, Commerce and Liberalism 2. The Fierce Trident 3.
Christianity, Liberalism and the Trident 4. The Maritime Revolution 5. The
Cobdenite Conscience: National War and Commercial Peace 6. The Strategists:
Naval Duel or Commercial War? 7. Britannia Contra Mundum 8. The Politics of
Pacifism, Parsimony and Redistribution 9. Offense and Defence: the
Historical and Materiel Schools 10. America and the Freedom of the Seas 11.
Radicals, Reactionaries and Power