Title: Navies in modern world history /
Authors: Sondhaus, Lawrence,
Date: 2004
Publisher: Reaktion,
Physical description: 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: "Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the onset of the twenty-first century. Lawrence Sondhaus examines the navies of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, demonstrating the variety of ways in which these countries have made decisive use of naval power, and the challenges these navies faced when assembling equipment and stores, training sailors, and undertaking various missions, and shows in what ways the results helped change the course of modern world history." "This book also deals with aircraft carrier design and naval aviation in the second half of the twentieth century, and the leading role of navies and shipbuilders in key technological innovations of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, including advances in steam power, armour, guns and torpedoes. Today, technological break-throughs are centred around naval stealth and maritime propulsion systems. Special attention is devoted to the evolving state of naval technology, showing how the relative industrial capabilities of seafaring countries have been reflected in their maritime building programmes, providing an important link between the evolution of modern national fleets and the broader history of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Ruling the waves : the British navy, 1815-1902 -- The challenger : the French navy, 1840s-1890s -- Shaping the southern colossus : the Brazilian navy, 1822-31 -- Preserving the Union : the United States navy, 1861-5 -- By reason or by force : the Chilean navy, 1879-92 -- A place in the sun : the German navy, 1898-1918 -- Empire builder : the Japanese navy, 1894-1945 -- Red star rising : the Soviet navy, 1956-91 -- Upholding the Pax Americana : the United States navy since 1991.
Subject headings (LCSH): Naval history, Modern.; Naval history.; Navies--History.; Sea-power--History.; Sea-power.