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The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914 by Matthew S Seligmann (2012, HC)
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- Subject Area
- History
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- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Subject
- Europe / Germany, Military / Naval, Military / World War I, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
- ISBN
- 9780199574032
- Publication Name
- Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914 : Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 198 Pages
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When and why did the Royal Navy come to view the expansion of German maritime power as a threat to British maritime security? Contrary to current thinking, Matthew S. Seligmann argues that Germany emerged as a major threat at the outset of the twentieth century, not because of its growing battle fleet, but because the British Admiralty (rightly) believed that Germany's naval planners intended to arm their country's fast merchant vessels in wartime and send them out to attack British trade in the manner of the privateers of old. This threat to British seaborne commerce was so serious that the leadership of the Royal Navy spent twelve years trying to work out how best to counter it. Ever more elaborate measures were devised to this end. These included building 'fighting liners' to run down the German ones; devising a specialized warship, the battle cruiser, as a weapon of trade defence; attempting to change international law to prohibit the conversion of merchant vessels into warships on the high seas; establishing a global intelligence network to monitor German shipping movements; and, finally, the arming of British merchant vessels in self-defence. The manner in which German schemes for commerce warfare drove British naval policy for over a decade before 1914 has not been recognized before. The Royal Navy and the German Threat illustrates a new and important aspect of British naval history.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199574030
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9780199574032
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Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914 : Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Germany, Military / Naval, Military / World War I, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Number of Pages
198 Pages
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Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
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2012-931193
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Va454.S45 2012
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"This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it. --H-War "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years." --Militært Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians." --The Journal of Military History "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE, "This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it. --H-War "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years." --Militrt Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians." --The Journal of Military History "Seligmann's mastery of the archives and judicious analysis are evident on every page... this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments... essential reading." --Journal of British Studies "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE, "This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it."--H-War"It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years."--Militært Tidsskrift"Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians."--The Journal of Military History"Seligmann's mastery of the archives and judicious analysis are evident on every page... this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments...[E]ssential reading."--Journal of British Studies"Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended."--CHOICE, "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE, "This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it."--H-War "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years."--Militært Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians."--The Journal of Military History "Seligmann's mastery of the archives and judicious analysis are evident on every page... this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments...[E]ssential reading."--Journal of British Studies "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended."--CHOICE, a serious, scholarly and original interpretation which future historians will have to take seriously., "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years." --Militært Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians." --The Journal of Military History "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE, "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians." --The Journal of Military History "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE, "This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it."--H-War "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years."--Militrt Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians."--The Journal of Military History "Seligmann's mastery of the archives and judicious analysis are evident on every page... this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments...[E]ssential reading."--Journal of British Studies "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended."--CHOICE, An incisive politico-military history showing that a heretofore niche aspect of the Anglo-German naval race seriously troubled the British Admiralty throughout the Edwardian period. Discussion of ships, shells and security on the high seas is admittedly terse stuff, but the writing is sprightly and the result a timely dredging around the origins of the Great War after a century of resting, unrecovered, in an archival tomb., It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years., "This is a good book. Matthew Seligmann's brief monograph explores the spans that join intelligence, planning, and hardware into a common military enterprise; and a considerable human interest derives from the actions of some of the naval history's most significant officers--a history that works its way up to admirals Alfred Tirpitz and Sir John Fisher along with Winston Churchill. The Royal Navy and the German Threat obviously has much to recommend it. --H-War "It is the single most important book on British strategy and naval history that have been published over the last 20 years." --Militært Tidsskrift "Seligmann's work is a salubrious addition to what has at times been an acrimonious discourse, and is a must-read for naval historians." --The Journal of Military History "Seligmann's mastery of the archives and judicious analysis are evident on every page... this book is a noteworthy addition to the growing body of scholarship critical of the revisionist arguments... essential reading." --Journal of British Studies "Based on new sources artfully used, this is an important new appreciation of British naval problems that adds to the potent historiography. Highly recommended." --CHOICE
Table of Content
Introduction1. iHandelskrieg gegen England/i: German Plans to attack British Commerce in an Anglo-German War2. Uncovering the Plan: British Intelligence on German Intentions3. The Dawn of the Lusitania: Germany's Fighting Liners and the Cunard Agreement of July 19034. A 'Fighting Cruiser' to Hunt 'the German Greyhounds': The Origins of HMS Invincible Revisited5. Testing Jurisprudence: Slade's Battle to Change the Laws of War at Sea6. Establishing a Global intelligence System7. Churchill's DAMSEpilogueConclusionBibliographyIndex, Introduction1: Handelskrieg gegen England: German Plans to attack British Commerce in an Anglo-German War2: Uncovering the Plan: British Intelligence on German Intentions3: The Dawn of the Lusitania: Germany's Fighting Liners and the Cunard Agreement of July 19034: A 'Fighting Cruiser' to Hunt 'the German Greyhounds': The Origins of HMS Invincible Revisited5: Testing Jurisprudence: Slade's Battle to Change the Laws of War at Sea6: Establishing a Global intelligence System7: Churchill's DAMSEpilogueConclusionBibliographyIndex
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
359.0094109041
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23
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