British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781107056954
Subjects: Great britain, royal navy, history; United states, navy, history; Sea-power; United states, history, 20th century; Great britain, foreign relations, united states; United states, foreign relations, great britain; Great britain, history, naval; United states, history, naval
Description: "During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none,' one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the United States offered to substitute naval equality for its emerging naval supremacy, the British, nonetheless, used the resulting two major international arms-control conferences of the 1920s to ensure its continued naval dominance"--