The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591023742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 405 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paul M. Kennedy is J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University. His most recent publication (2006) is The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations.. He regularly publishes in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic, and many other periodicals and scholarly journals. The author of thirteen books, he is perhaps best known for The
Superb work by Kennedy First, a couple of notes on earlier reviews. Kennedy wrote this book ten years before Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, not as a compilation afterwards. Second, he doesn't talk about the US Navy because it is not the subject of his book. He is not biased by writing a history of the Royal Navy and sticking to the Royal Navy--the reviewer who imagines the US Navy as so important as to need discussion in a book about the RN is. Third, US monitors were, compared to the broadside ironclads like HMS Warrior being built across the sea, a joke.The book's strength is in. "Makes You Wonder If this Could Happen to the US" according to Shellback. For anyone concerned about America's declining manufacturing base this book will confirm your fears. This book is not really a book about the British Navy as it is a book about rise and decline of Britain. The book starts out describing how naval warfare gave Europe an advantage in world affairs and how Britain came to dominate the seas. After the defeat of Napoleon Britain was able to become the "workshop of the world" and it dominated world trade for about 50 years. Once the rest of Europe and the US began to industrialize English industries gradually began to. "A Disturbing Book, in Many Ways" according to D. Chapman. Without taking a definite position on Mahan or geopolitics,the book presents British naval power as a textbook exampleof how an island nation became first a regional naval powerand then rose to global pre-eminence. The parts about howthe first wave of global trade interacted with the IndustrialRevolution are especially interesting.It then goes on to describe how a mixture of politics, socialproblems, and economic neglect weakened the British Navy, ata time when newly industrialized countries like Germany,Japan, and America were becoming stronger.The end of the s
Kennedy's magisterial survey of the historical role and significance of British seapower was recognized by serious naval historians as a work of the first importance. This is by far the most important survey of British naval history since Sir Herbert Richmond's Statesmen and Sea Power (1946) and in some ways it is more important." —International Historical Review . The book's publication in paperback provides an opportunity to recommend it to students of international relations, for its main objective is to place British naval power in broad geopolitical context. "As soon as it appeared in 1976, Paul M
First published in 1976, this book is the first detailed examination of the history of British sea power since A.T. In analyzing the reasons for the rise and fall of Great Britain as a predominant maritime nation in the period from the Tudors to the present day, Professor Kennedy sets the Royal Navy within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategical considerations.To this new paperback edition the author has added a new introduction that brings the discussion of naval power up to date, with special emphasis on today’s enormous U.S. Mahan's classic The Influence of Sea Power on History, published in 1890. Navy as the prime contemporary example of the use of naval forces to wield global influence.