Power at sea
By: Lisle A. Rose
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780826216946; 9780826217028; 9780826216953
Subjects: Sea-power -- History; Marine engineering -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects; Naval history; Navies -- History; War and society
Description: "[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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The age of navalism, 1890-1918; title: v. 2. The breaking storm, 1919-1945; title: v. 3. A violent peace, 1946-2006