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Liberalism and Naval Strategy Ideology, Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica
By Bernard Semmel
Copyright 1986
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their suspicion of force as government policy helped to inform critical choices. The traditional British naval strategy of the mercantilist era persisted... Read more
1. Sea Power, Commerce and Liberalism 2. The Fierce Trident 3. Christianity, Liberalism and the Trident 4. The Maritime Revolution 5. The Cobdenite Conscience: National War and Commercial Peace 6. The Strategists: Naval Duel or Commercial War? 7. Britannia Contra Mundum 8. The Politics of Pacifism, Parsimony and Redistribution 9. Offense and Defence: the Historical and Materiel Schools 10. America and the Freedom of the Seas 11. Radicals, Reactionaries and Power
Biography
Bernard Semmel
