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Author Bönker, Dirk

Title Militarism in a global age : naval ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I / Dirk Bönker
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 421 pages)
Series The United States in the world
United States in the world.
Contents Introduction : maritime militarism in two modern nation-states -- World power in a global age -- Big-power confrontations over empire -- Maritime force, threat, and war -- War of battle fleets -- Planning for victory -- Commerce, law, and the limitation of war -- Naval elites and the state -- Manufacturing consent -- A politics of social imperialism -- Of sciences, sea power, and strategy -- Between leadership and intraservice conflict -- Conclusion : navalism and its trajectories
Summary The author explores the far-reaching ambitions of US and German elite naval officers before WWI as they advance navalism. Viewing the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable, they channeled in different directions as they developed contrasting outlooks on their bids for world power and maritime force. This book challenges the traditional and exceptionalist assumptions about militarism and national identity in the exploration of empire and goepolitics, warfare and military-operational imaginations, state formation and national governance, and expertise and professionalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Sea-power -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Sea-power -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Militarism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Militarism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Militarism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Militarism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Militarism
Sea-power
Seemacht
Marinepolitik
Seemacht.
Marinepolitik.
SUBJECT Germany -- History, Naval -- 19th century
Germany -- History, Naval -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054606
United States -- History, Naval -- To 1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140345
United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140347
Subject Germany
United States
Deutschland
USA
Deutschland.
USA.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011034818
ISBN 0801463882
9780801463884