Dreadnought : the ship that changed the world / Roger Parkinson.

By:

Parkinson, Roger [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780857737052
0857737058
9780755621569
0755621565

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: DreadnoughtDDC classification:

359.3/2520941 23

LOC classification:

V815.5.G7 P37 2015eb

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Contents:

About the Author; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 The Origins of the Pre-Dreadnought Era; 2 The Pre-Dreadnought Era in the 1890s; 3 The New Navies of the 1890s; 4 Fisher and the Dreadnought; 5 The Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine); 6 The Politics and Diplomacy of Naval Policy; 7 From Dreadnoughts to Super-Dreadnoughts; 8 The Worldwide Dreadnought Arms Race; 9 World War I to Jutland; 10 From Jutland to Washington; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography.

Summary: The years before World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers - Germany, America and Japan - from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. He shows how the dreadnought enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy of the 'Pax Britannica' in the Victorian era to being a war-ready fi.

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The years before World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'. The monumental battleship design, first introduced by Admiral Fisher to the Royal Navy in 1906, was quickly adopted around the world and led to a new era of maritime warfare. In this book, Roger Parkinson provides a re-writing of the naval history of Britain and the other leading naval powers - Germany, America and Japan - from the 1880s to the early years of World War I. He shows how the dreadnought enabled the Royal Navy to develop from being primarily the navy of the 'Pax Britannica' in the Victorian era to being a war-ready fi.

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