Militarism in a Global Age : : Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I /

Militarism in a Global Age : : Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I / / Dirk Bönker.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Bönker, Dirk,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Maritime Militarism in Two Modern Nation-States
  • Part I. Military Force, National Industry, and Global Politics: Naval Strategies of World Power
  • 1. World Power in a Global Age
  • 2. Big-Power Confrontations over Empire
  • 3. Maritime Force, Threat, and War
  • Part II. The Cult of the Battle: Approaches to Maritime Warfare
  • 4. War of Battle Fleets
  • 5. Planning for Victory
  • 6. Commerce, Law, and the Limitation of War
  • Part III. The Quest for Power: The Navy, Governance, and the Nation
  • 7. Naval Elites and the State
  • 8. Manufacturing Consent
  • 9. A Politics of Social Imperialism
  • Part IV. A Militarism of Experts: Naval Professionalism and the Making of Navalism
  • 10. Of Sciences, Sea Power, and Strategy
  • 11. Between Leadership and Intraservice Conflict
  • Conclusion: Navalism and Its Trajectories
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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