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Far-flung lines : essays on imperial defence in honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman

Title: Far-flung lines : essays on imperial defence in honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman / edited by Greg Kennedy and Keith Neilson.
Publication: London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 1997.

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Description

228 pages : 1 portrait; 25 cm

Series Statement

Cass series--naval policy and history ; 2

Uniform Title

Cass series--naval policy and history ; 2.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228).

Contents

Introduction / Greg Kennedy and Keith Neilson -- Perception in the midst of chaos / Karl Revells -- Steam, strategy and Shurman : imperial defence in the post-Crimean era, 1856-1905 / John Beeler -- Economy or empire? The fleet unit concept and the quest for collective security in the Pacific, 1909-1914 / Nicholas Lambert -- The Empire and the USA in British strategy in the spring of 1917 / David French -- 'For diplomatic, economic, strategy and telegraphic reasons': British imperial defence, the Middle East and India, 1914-1918 / Keith Neilson -- 'It is our business in the navy to command the seas' : the last decade of British maritime supremacy, 1919-1929 / John Ferris -- The Royal Navy and the defence of the British Empire, 1928-1934 / Orest Babij -- 1935 : a snapshot of British imperial defence in the Far East / Greg Kennedy.

ISBN

0714646830
9780714646831
0714642169
9780714642161
0714642199 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

97151476

OCLC

ocm36122963
36122963
SCSB-367656

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library