The Dreadnought and the Edwardian age
By: [edited by] Andrew Lambert, Jan Rueger and Robert Blyth
Contributors: Rüger, Jan
Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754663157
Subjects: Dreadnought (Battleship); Design and construction; Naval History; Warships; Arms race; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Dreadnought and the Edwardian age / Robert J. Blyth; title: The symbolic value of the Dreadnought / Jan Rüger; title: The power of a name : tradition, technology and transformation / Andrew Lambert; title: The greatest and richest sacrifice ever made on the altar of militarism : the finance of naval expansion, c. 1890-1914 / Martin Daunton; title: Grey ambassador : the dreadnought and British foreign policy / T.G. Otte; title: Dreadnought : a golden opportunity for Germany's naval aspirations? / Michael Epkenhans; title: The woman's dreadnought : maritime symbolism in Edwardian gender politics / Lucy Delap; title: The surest safeguard of peace : technology, the navy and the nation in Boys' papers, c. 1905-1907 / Max Jones; title: Dreadnought science : the cultural construction of efficiency and effectiveness / Crosbie Smith; title: The battleship Dreadnought : technological, economic and strategic contexts / Eric Grove; title: Grand battle-fleet tactics : from the Edwardian age to Jutland / John Brooks; title: HMS Dreadnought and the tides of history / Paul Kennedy.