Great Britain And Sea Power 1815 1853

Author : Christopher John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0751201413

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Great Britain and Sea Power, 1815-1853 by Christopher John Bartlett Pdf

This is an analysis of the main forces determining British naval policy between the defeat of Napoleon and the start of the Crimean War. It is based on official and provate papers and challenges some of the traditional charges that naval policy was too conservative, notably in the introduction of steamships. These were weaknesses, but the fleet compares favourably with other navies. It also has to be borne in mind that in the Crimean War it was engaged against fortications rather than enemy ships. The navy was an undoubted success as a strategic instrument before and during that war.

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351904094

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Representing the Royal Navy by Margarette Lincoln Pdf

From the mid 18th century up till after memories of the Napoleonic wars and the glories of 'Nelson's navy' had faded, the Royal Navy was the bulwark of Britain's defence and the safeguard of trade and imperial expansion. While there have been political and military histories of the Navy in this period, looking at battles and personalities, and studies of its administration and the life below decks, this book is the first study of the Navy in a cultural context, exploring contemporary attitudes to war and peace and to ideologies of race and gender. As well as literary sources, Dr Lincoln draws on the vast collections of the National Maritime Museum, in paintings, cartoons, and ceramics, amongst others, to focus attention on material that has hitherto been little used - even research into the general culture of the late-Georgian age has, curiously, neglected perceptions of the Navy, which was one of its major institutions. Individual chapters discuss the attitudes of particular groups towards the Navy - merchants, politicians, churchmen, women, scientists, and the seamen themselves - and how these attitudes changed over the course of the period.

Author : Arthur Jacob Marder
Publisher : Hamden, Conn., Archon
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X000229932

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The Anatomy of British Sea Power by Arthur Jacob Marder Pdf

Author : Howard J. Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134200450

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Empire, Technology and Seapower by Howard J. Fuller Pdf

This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it suffered serious challenges in the form of expanding imperial commitments, national security concerns, precarious diplomatic relations with European Powers and the United States, and technological advancements associated with the armoured warship at the height of the so-called 'Pax Britannica'. Utilising a wealth of international archival sources, this volume explores the introduction of the monitor form of ironclad during the American Civil War, which deliberately forfeited long-range power-projection for local, coastal command of the sea. It looks at the ways in which the Royal Navy responded to this new technology and uses a wealth of international primary and secondary sources to ascertain how decision-making at Whitehall affected that at Westminster. The result is a better-balanced understanding of Palmerstonian diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, the early evolution of the modern capital ship (including the catastrophic loss of the experimental sail-and-turret ironclad H.M.S. Captain), naval power-projection, and the nature of 'empire', 'technology', and 'seapower'. This book will be of great interest to all students of the Royal Navy, and of maritime and strategic studies in general.

Author : Kenneth Bourne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520324220

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Britain and the Balance of Power in North America 1815-1908 by Kenneth Bourne Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Author : George Modelski,William R. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349091546

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Seapower in Global Politics, 1494–1993 by George Modelski,William R. Thompson Pdf

Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317037002

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The Crimean War by Andrew Lambert Pdf

In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are strategic, derived from the works of Carl von Clausewitz and Sir Julian Corbett, and the main focus is on naval, not military operations. This original approach rejected the 'Continentalist' orthodoxy that dominated contemporary writing about the history of war, reflecting an era when British security policy was dominated by Inner German Frontier, the British Army of the Rhine and Air Force Germany. Originally published in 1990 the book appeared just as the Cold War ended; the strategic landscape for Britain began shifting away from the continent, and new commitments were emerging that heralded a return to maritime strategy, as adumbrated in the defence policy papers of the 1990s. With a new introduction that contextualises the 1990 text and situates it in the developing historiography of the Crimean War the new edition makes this essential book available to a new generation of scholars.

Author : Professor Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409482598

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The Crimean War by Professor Andrew Lambert Pdf

In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core concern is with grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. The key concepts are strategic, derived from the works of Carl von Clausewitz and Sir Julian Corbett, and the main focus is on naval, not military operations. This original approach rejected the 'Continentalist' orthodoxy that dominated contemporary writing about the history of war, reflecting an era when British security policy was dominated by Inner German Frontier, the British Army of the Rhine and Air Force Germany. Originally published in 1990 the book appeared just as the Cold War ended; the strategic landscape for Britain began shifting away from the continent, and new commitments were emerging that heralded a return to maritime strategy, as adumbrated in the defence policy papers of the 1990s. With a new introduction that contextualises the 1990 text and situates it in the developing historiography of the Crimean War the new edition makes this essential book available to a new generation of scholars.

Author : Michael Duffy
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0859893855

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Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850 by Michael Duffy Pdf

This volume is one of a series of works on maritime history, which aims to investigate and interpret the British maritime past and European and international maritime topics from the earliest times to the contemporary world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UOM:39015078436410

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Strategic Review by Anonim Pdf

... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.

Author : Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867920

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The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914 by Roy Bridge,Roger Bullen Pdf

This book illuminates, in the form of a clear, well-paced and student-friendly analytical narrative, the functioning of the European states system in its heyday, the crucial century between the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 and the outbreak of the First World War just one hundred years later. In this substantially revised and expanded version of the text, the author has included the results of the latest research, a body of additional information and a number of carefully designed maps that will make the subject even more accessible to readers.

Author : Miroslav Šedivý
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786730206

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Crisis Among the Great Powers by Miroslav Šedivý Pdf

In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers. The crisis was given the name of the natural frontier which divided France from the rest of Europe: the Rhine. Although the Rhine Crisis did not lead to armed conflict, many states were deeply worried by the unfolding events and by the failure of the peace so carefully negotiated at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Combined with accumulated political, social, national and economic problems, there were fears of general social upheaval and perhaps even revolution. This book uses the Rhine Crisis to evaluate the stability of the European States System and the functionality of the Concert of Europe in this period. In doing so, Miroslav edivy offers an original and deeply-researched insight into the history of international relations in the pivotal years between 1815 and 1848."

Author : Aaron L. Friedberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400836406

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The Weary Titan by Aaron L. Friedberg Pdf

How do statesmen become aware of unfavorable shifts in relative power, and how do they seek to respond to them? These are puzzles of considerable importance to theorists of international relations. As national decline has become an increasingly prominent theme in American political debate, these questions have also taken on an immediate, pressing significance. The Weary Titan is a penetrating study of a similar controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Aaron Friedberg explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power. The British example suggests that statesmen may be slow to recognize shifts in international position, in part because they rely heavily on simple but often distorting indicators of relative capabilities. In a new afterword, Friedberg examines current debates about whether America is in decline, arguing that American power will remain robust for some time to come.

Author : Christopher Haigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521395526

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The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland by Christopher Haigh Pdf

The history of Britain and Ireland is traditionally presented as a succession of dramatic changes, but in this reference work the 60 contributors under the editorship of Christopher Haigh have emphasized patterns of continuity instead, including cultural, social, political and economic themes. 300 illustrations.

Author : Roger Morriss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351915588

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Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850 by Roger Morriss Pdf

Recent work on the growth of British naval power during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has emphasised developments in the political, constitutional and financial infrastructure of the British state. Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 takes these considerations one step further, and examines the relationship of administrative culture within government bureaucracy to contemporary perceptions of efficiency in the period 1760-1850. By administrative culture is meant the ideas, attitudes, structures, practices and mores of public employees. Inevitably these changed over time and this shift is examined as the naval departments passed through times of crisis and peace. Focusing on the transition in the culture of government employees in the naval establishments in London - in the Navy and Victualling Offices - as well as the victualling yard towns along the Thames and Medway, Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850 concerns itself with attitudes at all levels of the organisation. Yet it is concerned above all with those whose views and conduct are seldom reported, the clerks, artificers, secretaries and commissioners; those employees of government who lived in local communities and took their work experience back home with them. As such, this book illuminates not only the employees of government, but also the society which surrounded and impinged upon naval establishments, and the reciprocal nature of their attitudes and influences.