Imperialism at sea : : naval strategic thought, the ideology of sea power, and the Tirpitz Plan, 1875-1914 / / Rolf Hobson.

• Superior document: Studies in Central European histories
• VerfasserIn: Hobson, Rolf,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill Academic Publishers,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European histories.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Was Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz' plan for naval expansion and the development of a "risk fleet" as a way to position Wilhelmine Germany as a world power to rival Britain so unique? This comparative study of the modern naval strategy of Germany, Britain, France, and the United Sta...

Table of Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Part One
• The Changing Framework of International Rivalry, 1840-1914
• Chapter 1: Industrialization, People's War,
• and the Limits to Land and Sea Power 11
• The End of the Congress System, the
• Advent of Industrialized People's War,
• and Germany's "Semi-Hegemony," 1850-1871 13
• Industrialization and the Effectiveness
• of Britain's Sea Power, 1840-1914 24
• Competitive Modernization, Arms Races,
• and War, 1840-1914 39
• The Naval Balance of Power, Maritime Law,
• and the Limits to Britain's Sea Power 57
• Part Two
• Naval Strategy in an Industrializing World, 1865-1895
• Chapter 2: Adapting History in Britain and France 84
• Britain and Blue Water 85
• France and the Jeune Ecole 96
• Chapter 3: German Grand Strategy and the
• Prussian School of Naval Thought, 1871-1895 110
• German Grand Strategy and the Navy 113
• The Prussian School of Naval Thought
• The Prussian School, Operational Doctrine,
• and the Renewal of the Fleet
• Chapter 4: Navalism, Strategy, and History in
• Mahan's Thought and Influence
• Mahan's Elements of Sea Power-
• Strategic and Navalist
• Mahan's Imperialism
• The Basics of Mahan's Strategy
• Chapter 5: From the Prussian to the German
• School, 1891-1895: Operational Doctrine
• and the Ideology of Sea Power
• Mahan and German Navalism
• The Prussian School Meets Mahan
• A Decade of Intra-Service Rivalry
• Tirpitz and the Axioms of the Prussian School:
• The Memoranda of 1891-1892
• The Honing of Prussian Naval Thought, 1892-1894:
• The Operational Doctrines of Dienstschrift IX
• The Ideology of Sea Power in Dienstschrift IX
• Part Three
• The Origins and Objectives of the Tirpitz Plan, 1895-1914
• Chapter 6: From Dienstschrift IX to the Risk
• Theory, 1895-1900
• The Acceptance of the High Command's
• Construction Program, 1895-1897
• From Prusso-German Naval Defense to
• the "Fleet against England": The First
• and Second Navy Laws, 1897-1900
• Chapter 7: The "Risk Fleet" and the German
• School of Naval Thought
• The "Final Objectives" of Construction Policy
• Numbers, Allies, and Position
• Strategic Options and Maritime Law under
• the Primacy of the Tirpitz Plan
• From Maltzahn to Wegener: The German
• School and Geopolitics
• Chapter 8: The Peculiarities of Wilhelmine
• Navalism
• Semiabsolutist Navalism
• Social Imperialism from Weber to
• the "Kehrites": The Historiographical
• Politics of the "Risk Fleet"
• Conclusion
• Sources
• Index.