Navies in multipolar worlds : from the age of sail to the present /: from the age of sail to the present. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Kennedy, Evan Mehaffey Wilson.
• Editors: Kennedy, Paul M, 1945-; Wilson, Evan Mehaffey, 1984-
• Contents: Foreword Paul Kennedy Introduction Evan Wilson 1. French Sea Power in the Utrecht Era: "Balance of Power" and the Strategic Context of Louis XIV’s Navy Alan James 2. "A Brilliant Second": French Hybridization as a Great Power Brian C. Chao 3. British North Atlantic Convoys, 1812–14, and the Subsequent Rejection of the Convoy System Roger Knight 4. The Limits of Naval Power: Britain after 1815 Evan Wilson 5. David Lloyd George and the Contest for Naval Mastery: The American Challenge John H. Maurer 6. Japan’s Transition from a Maritime to a Continental Security Paradigm, 1928–1941 S.C.M. Paine 7. A Rising Power Facing Multipolarity: Italian Naval Policy and Strategy in the Age of Fascism Fabio De Ninno 8. Managed Decline in an Age of Multipolarity: The Case of the Royal Navy in the Interwar Period G.H. Bennett 9. The Shifts in Global Naval Power, 1936–1946 Paul Kennedy 10. Danish Naval Evolution in the Arctic: Developments through the Unipolar Moment Timothy Choi 11. Multipolarity, Navies, and the Post-Cold War World Geoffrey Till 12. China in a Multipolar World Hu Bo Afterword: Reflections on the Great War at Sea John H. Maurer
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 359.03; Navies -- History; Naval history; Naval art and science
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000203233; 9781000203073; 9781000203158; 9780367855406
• Related ISBNs: 9780367427221
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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