Naval history 1850-present / edited by Andrew Lambert. Volume I

• Vol. 1. Part 1 : 1850 - 1861 . Health of seamen in anti-slavery squadrons / James Watt -- Limits of naval power : British gunboat diplomacy in China from the "Nemesis" to the "Amethyst," 1839-1949 / J.Y. Wong . Part 2 : US Civil War . The Union navy's blockade reconsidered / David G. Surdam -- "Frictions" : shipboard relations between White and contraband sailors / Michael J. Bennett -- "This country now occupies the vantage ground" : understanding John Ericsson's Monitors and the American Union's war against British naval supremacy / Howard J. Fuller . Part 3 : Late nineteenth century . The Russian navy and the problem of technological transfer / Jacob W. Kipp -- Naval warfare and the refraction of China's self-strengthening reforms into scientific and technological failure, 1865-1895 / Benjamin A. Elman -- John Ericsson and the transformation of Swedish naval doctrine / Jan Glete -- The Childers admiralty reforms and the nineteenth-century "Revolution" in British government / C.I. Hamilton -- One power standard? Great Britain and the balance of naval power, 1860-1880 / John F. Beller -- Strategy, tactics, and the politics of penury : the Austro-Hungarian navy and the "Jeune Ecole" / Lawrence Sondhaus -- Public opinion, the navy, and the city of London : the drive for British naval expansion in the late nineteenth century / Steven R.B. Smith -- Development of German naval operations plans against England, 1896-1914 / P.M. Kennedy -- Strategic determinism in technology selection : the electric battleship and the US naval-industrial relations / William M. McBride -- Strategical value of speed in battle-ships / Julian Corbett -- Morality and admiralty : "Jacky" Fisher, economic warfare and the laws of war / Avner Offer -- Churchill's naval holiday : arms control and the Anglo-German naval race, 1912-1914 / John H. Maurer -- Labour politics in the naval dockyard : the case of Karlskrona, Sweden c. 1880-1925 / Mary Hilson. Part 4 : World War 1 : "The triumph of unarmed forces" : Sweden and the allied blockade of Germany, 1914-1917 / B.J.C. McKercher and Keith E. Neilson -- Josephus Daniels and the US Navy's shipbuilding program during World War I / William J. Williams -- Twisting the dragon's tail : the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids of 1918 / Mark Karau.

Ämnesord

Naval history, Modern  -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Naval history, Modern  -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Navies  -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Navies  -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Klassifikation

D362 (LCC)

359.009/04 (DDC)

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