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1 Online-Ressource (801 p)
ISBN:
9781852850784
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- PART ONE: THE GREAT WAR WITH FRANCE 1793-1815 -- Outline: 1793-1815 -- 1 Britain at War with France -- I: Causes or Occasions -- II: The Occasion of War -- III: The Ideology of the War -- IV: The Objectives of the War in the 1790s -- V: The War against Napoleon -- VI: Unofficial War Aims -- 2 The Industrial Revolution at War -- I: Assessing Britain's Wartime Economy -- II: Population and Wealth: Some International Comparisons -- III: The Evidence of Tax Statistics -- IV: Industrialization and Boom -- V: Mobilizing National Resources -- VI: The Contribution of Technology -- VII: The Contribution of Industrial Production -- VIII: International Comparisons: External Trade -- IX: A Key Resource: Money -- X: The Paper System -- 3 Britain at War with Europe -- I: The European Response to British Policy -- II: The Case for Action against Britain -- III: The Armed Neutrality of 1800 -- IV: Copenhagen, 1807 -- V: The Continental System -- VI: From Isolation to Triumph -- 4 Wellington's War -- I: The Elusive Strategic Pattern -- II: The Problem of Strategic Control -- III: Command of the Sea -- IV: The British Army: A Profession of Amateurs -- V: Military-Naval Cooperation -- VI: The Continental Commitment -- VII: The Duke of Wellington -- VIII: Wellington's System: Logistics and Repression -- IX: Wellington's Logistics and the Logic of Success -- 5 Venetian Oligarchy or Vacuum -- I: The British Political System during the French Wars -- II: Government and Party in the 1800s -- III: The Structure of Public Opinion -- IV: George III as National Symbol -- V: Alternative Symbols -- VI: The War and the Established Order -- VII: The War and National Consensus -- PART TWO: THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918 -- Outline: 1914-1918 -- 6 Britain's Entry into the First World War: A Study in Motives -- I: Problems of Agenda.
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ISBN 9781441150493
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781852850784
Additional Edition:
Print version Harvey, A. D Collision of Empires : Britain in Three World Wars, 1793-1945 London : Bloomsbury Publishing,c1993 ISBN 9781852850784
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