The Sea in History - The Modern World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rodger, Nicholas A. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

An assessment of how important the sea has been in the development of modern history.

How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this ground-breaking four volume work. The books bring together the world's leading maritime historians, who address the question of what difference the sea has made in relation to around 250 situations ranging from the earliest times to the present. They consider, across the entire world, subjects related to human migration, trade, economic development, warfare, the building of political units including states and empires, the dissemination of ideas, culture and religion, and much more, showing how the sea was crucial to all these aspects of human development.
The Sea in History - The Modern World covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the global reach of major powers frequently brought them into conflict with each other, including conflict at sea. The many majors wars at sea of the period are discussed, as are the planning and strategic thinking of the major powers in cases both where war followed and where it did not, and in addition the role and thinking of less important powers such as Portugal and Denmark are analysed. The book considers how in this first great age of 'globalisation' seaborne trade helped many countries to prosperity by participation in the global economy, a process halted by the First World War and not resumed until the 1950s. The book also examines maritime resources including fishing and whaling; ships, shipbuilding, ports and navigation; and the logistics of supporting long distance maritime activity. One very interesting chapter on late imperial China shows how China's then failure to take maritime issues seriously was a major factor in the empire's collapse.

58 of the contributions are in English; 6 are in French.

N.A. M. RODGER is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford CHRISTIAN BUCHET is Professor of Maritime History, Catholic University of Paris, Scientific Director of Océanides and a member of l'Académie de marine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782049111
• Artikelnr.: 63918664

Autorenporträt

N.A.M. Rodger, Christian Buchet

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
N.A.M. Rodger (All Souls College, Oxford) The Sea and Seapower within the International System
Paul Kennedy (Yale University) Germany, 1870
1914: a military empire turns to the sea
Michael Epkenhans (Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, Germany) The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1937
1942
Richard B. Frank (United States) The US as a new naval power, 1890
1919
Kenneth J. Hagan (U.S. Naval Academy) World war suspended and resumed: Russia, 1919
1940
Gunnar Åselius (Swedish Defence University) Freedom and control of the seas, 1856
1919
Gabriela A. Frei (University of Oxford) UNCLOS and the Modern Law of the Sea
Sam Bateman (University of Wollongong) New Navies and Maritime Powers
Steven Haines (University of Greenwich) Britain, 1815
1850: naval power or sea power?
Andrew Lambert (King's College London) Free trade, industrialization and the global economy, 1815
1914
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke (All Souls College, Oxford) Coal and the Sea
Sarah Palmer (University of Greenwich) Shipbuilding and Power: Some Reflections
Alan Lemmers (Netherlands Institute of Military History) Maintaining Naval Hegemony in the Industrial Age: Britain, 1850
1889
John F. Beeler (University of Alabama) Naval Armaments Races, 1889
1922
Jon Tetsuro Sumida (University of Maryland) The British Empire and the War at Sea, 1914
1918
David Stevens (Department of Defence, Canberra, Australia) Steaming worldwide waters: adaptation and transformation in the Netherlands
Anita M.C. van Dissel (Leiden University) Austria
Hungary: An Inland Empire Looks to the Sea
Lawrence Sondhaus (University of Indianapolis) The Ottoman Empire and the sea, 1789
1922
Colin Heywood (University of Hull) Italy, 1861
1914: did the sea build a State and an Empire?
Francesco Zampieri (Naval Staff College, Italy) Imperial failure of the industrial age: Spain, 1805
1898
Jesús M. Valdaliso (University of the Basque Country) Denmark, a small power with a growing shipping industry
Anders Monrad Møller (University of Copenhagen) Sweden and the Sea in the 19th Century
Leos Müller (Stockholm University) Navies, Internal Order and Trade in South America, 1830
1914
Brian Vale (United Kingdom) The Sea and the American Civil War
Craig L. Symonds (US Naval Academy) The Wider Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries
Johanna von Grafenstein (Instituto Mora, Mexico) Ship Canals
Graeme J. Milne (University of Liverpool) Oil and Water
Patrick Alderton (United Kingdom) Imperial failure in the industrial age: China, 1842
1911
S.C.M. Paine (US Naval War College) China Turns to the Sea: 1912
1990
Bruce A. Elleman (US Naval War College) India and the Sea
James Goldrick (University of New South Wales at Canberra) Les îles d'Océanie et l'ouverture sur la mer à l'heure de la première mondialisation contemporaine
Claire Laux (Sciences Po Bordeaux) Maritime Labour
Alastair Couper (Cardiff University) Fisheries
Ingo Heidbrink (Old Dominion University, United States and University of Hull, United Kingdom) Geographical Determinism and the Growth of the American Whaling and Sealing Industries
Michael P. Dyer (New Bedford Whaling Museum, United States) La France et la mer 1815
1914
Michèle Battesti (Institut de echerche stratégique de l'École militaire, Paris) Russia tries the new naval technologies, 1815
1914
Norman Saul (University of Kansas) The First World War and Japan: from the Anglo
Japanese Alliance to the Washington Treaty
Yoichi Hirama (Japanese Maritime Self
Defense Force) The Sea in the Great War
Avner Offer (University of Oxford) The Mediterranean and World War I
Paul G. Halpern (Florida State University) Germany in World War One: Naval Strategy and Warfare
Werner Rahn (Captain (ret.) of the German Navy) The Sea in German Grand Strategy, 1919
1939/40
Werner Rahn (Captain (ret.) of the German Navy) The Case of Germany in the First Part of World War II
1939
1942
Jörg Hillmann (Captain in the German Navy attached to the European Defence Agency in Brussels) Britain on the Defensive, 1939
1942
W.J.R. Gardner (Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom) Britain and the Sea, 1943
45
Christopher Baxter (Queen's University Belfast) The Washington Treaty Era, 1919
1936: naval arms limitation
Phillips Payson O'Brien (London School of Economics) The Washington Treaty Era: Neutralising the Pacific
Christopher M. Bell (Dalhousie University) The United States and the Second World War
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes (US Naval War College) The sea as a decisive factor in the Second World War
Evan Mawdsley (University of Glasgow) The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919
40
MacGregor Knox (London School of Economics and Political Science) The Italian Offensive, 1940 to 1941
Simon Ball (University of Leeds) The Sea and the Cold War
Norman Friedman (US Naval Institute) NATO as a maritime alliance in the Cold War
Eric Grove (Society for Nautical Research and the Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom) The Sea and the Soviet Empire
Colin S. Gray (University of Reading) The sea and the economic slump, 1919
39
Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge) Océans et globalisation depuis 1945
Hubert Bonin (Sciences Po Bordeaux and University of Bordeaux) America's Pacific Power in a Global Age
Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) Les nouvelles ressources océaniques
Alain Beltran (CNRS, France) Hiérarchies portuaires dans le monde et changements régionaux de connectivité maritime, 1890
2010
César Ducruet (CNRS, France) and Bruno Marnot (University of La Rochelle) Between empires and institutions: non
state actors and the sea since 1945
Martin N. Murphy (King's College London) The Narcotics Trade and the Sea
Peter Chalk (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) Climate Change and World Trade
Mark Maslin (University College London) La France et la mer depuis 1945: une mutation inachevée
Philippe Vial (research department of the Defense Historical Department at the Ministry of Defense, France) Changes in Naval Power and Seaborne Trade in Postwar Asian Waters
Geoffrey Till (King's College London) Looking to the Future
Jeremy Black (University of Exeter) Conclusion
N.A.M. Rodger (All Souls College, Oxford)