Title The sea in history. The modern world = La mer dans l'histoire. La période contemporaine / edited by N.A.M. Rodger ; general editor, Christian Buchet

Published Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 814 pages) Contents Frontcover; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; General introduction and acknowledgements by Christian Buchet; Introduction générale et remercients par Christian Buchet; Introduction (English); Introduction (français); The sea and seapower within the international system; Germany, 1870-1914: a military empire turns to the sea; The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1937-1942; The US as a new naval power, 1890-1919; World war suspended and resumed: Russia, 1919-1940; Freedom and control of the seas, 1856-1919; UNCLOS and the modern law of the sea New navies and maritime powersBritain, 1815-1850: naval power or sea power?; Free trade, industrialization and the global economy, 1815-1914; Coal and the sea; Shipbuilding and power: some reflections; Maintaining naval hegemony in the industrial age: Britain, 1850-1889; Naval armaments races, 1889-1922; The British Empire and the war at sea, 1914-1918; Steaming worldwide waters: adaptation and transformation in the Netherlands; Austria-Hungary: an inland empire looks to the sea; The Ottoman Empire and the sea, 1789-1922; Empire and trade without a major navy: Portugal Italy, 1861-1914: did the sea build a state and an empire?Imperial failure of the industrial age: Spain, 1805-1898; Denmark: a small power with a growing shipping industry; Sweden and the sea in the 19th century; Navies, internal order and trade in South America, 1830-1914; The sea and the American Civil War; The wider Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries; Ship canals; Oil and water; Imperial failure in the industrial age: China, 1842-1911; China turns to the sea, 1912-1990; India and the sea Les îles d'Océanie et l'ouverture sur la mer à l'heure de la première mondialisation contemporaineMaritime labour; Fisheries; Geographical determinism and the growth of the American whaling and sealing industries; La France et la mer, 1815-1914; Russia tries the new naval technologies, 1815-1914; The First World War and Japan: from the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to the Washington Treaty; The sea in the Great War; The Mediterranean and World War I; Germany in World War One: naval strategy and warfare; The sea in German grand strategy, 1919-1939/40 The case of Germany in the first part of World War II, 1939-1942Britain on the defensive, 1939-1942; Britain and the sea, 1943-1945; The Washington Treaty era, 1919-1936: naval arms limitation; The Washington Treaty era: neutralising the Pacific; The United States and the Second World War; The sea as a decisive factor in the Second World War; The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919-1940; The Italian offensive, 1940-1941; The sea and the Cold War; NATO as a maritime alliance in the Cold War; The sea and the Soviet Empire; The sea and the economic slump, 1919-1939 Summary An assessment of how important the sea has been in the development of modern history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Chapters in English and French. Introductions in both English and French Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 14, 2017) Subject Naval history -- 19th century Naval history -- 20th century History, Modern -- 19th century. History, Modern -- 20th century. Globalization -- History -- 19th century Globalization -- History -- 20th century Ocean and civilization. Civilization -- History. World history. Ocean -- History Globalization. Naval history, Modern. Naval history, Modern -- 20th century. globalism. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- History. HISTORY -- Military -- Naval. World history Ocean and civilization Ocean Civilization Globalization History, Modern Naval history Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Rodger, N. A. M., 1949- editor. Buchet, Christian, editor. ISBN 9781782049111 1782049118

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