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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.〈BR〉 〈I〉The Sea in History - The Modern World〈/I〉 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 thinkingof 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 considershow 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 untilthe 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.〈BR〉〈BR〉 58 of the contributions are in English; 6 are in French.〈BR〉〈BR〉 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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of illustrations --
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List of contributors --
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List of abbreviations --
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General introduction and acknowledgements --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction (English) --
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Introduction (français) --
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The sea and seapower within the international system --
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Germany, 1870–1914: a military empire turns to the sea --
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The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1937–1942 --
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The US as a new naval power, 1890–1919 --
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World war suspended and resumed: Russia, 1919–1940 --
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Freedom and control of the seas, 1856–1919 --
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UNCLOS and the modern law of the sea --
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New navies and maritime powers --
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Britain, 1815–1850: naval power or sea power? --
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Free trade, industrialization and the global economy, 1815–1914 --
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Coal and the sea --
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Shipbuilding and power: some reflections --
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Maintaining naval hegemony in the industrial age: Britain, 1850–1889 --
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Naval armaments races, 1889–1922 --
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The British Empire and the war at sea, 1914–1918 --
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Steaming worldwide waters: adaptation and transformation in the Netherlands --
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Austria-Hungary: an inland empire looks to the sea --
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The Ottoman Empire and the sea, 1789–1922 --
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Empire and trade without a major navy: Portugal --
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Italy, 1861–1914: did the sea build a state and an empire? --
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Imperial failure of the industrial age: Spain, 1805–1898 --
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Denmark: a small power with a growing shipping industry --
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Sweden and the sea in the 19th century --
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Navies, internal order and trade in South America, 1830–1914 --
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The sea and the American Civil War --
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The wider Caribbean during the 19th and 20th centuries --
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Ship canals --
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Oil and water --
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Imperial failure in the industrial age: China, 1842–1911 --
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China turns to the sea, 1912–1990 --
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India and the sea --
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Les îles d’Océanie et l’ouverture sur la mer à l’heure de la première mondialisation contemporaine --
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Maritime labour --
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Fisheries --
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Geographical determinism and the growth of the American whaling and sealing industries --
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La France et la mer, 1815–1914 --
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Russia tries the new naval technologies, 1815–1914 --
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The First World War and Japan: from the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to the Washington Treaty --
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The sea in the Great War --
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The Mediterranean and World War I --
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Germany in World War One: naval strategy and warfare --
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The sea in German grand strategy, 1919–1939/40 --
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The case of Germany in the first part of World War II, 1939–1942 --
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Britain on the defensive, 1939–1942 --
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Britain and the sea, 1943–1945 --
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The Washington Treaty era, 1919–1936: naval arms limitation --
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The Washington Treaty era: neutralising the Pacific --
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The United States and the Second World War --
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The sea as a decisive factor in the Second World War --
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The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919–1940 --
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The Italian offensive, 1940–1941 --
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The sea and the Cold War --
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NATO as a maritime alliance in the Cold War --
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The sea and the Soviet Empire --
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The sea and the economic slump, 1919–1939 --
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Océans et globalisation depuis 1945 --
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America’s Pacific power in a global age --
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Les nouvelles ressources océaniques --
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Hiérarchies portuaires dans le monde et changements régionaux de connectivité maritime, 1890–2010 --
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Between empires and institutions: non-state actors and the sea since 1945 --
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The narcotics trade and the sea --
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Climate change and world trade --
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La France et la mer depuis 1945: une mutation inachevée --
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Changes in naval power and seaborne trade in postwar Asian waters --
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Looking to the future --
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Conclusion (English) --
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Conclusion (français) --
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General conclusion --
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Conclusion générale
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In English and French.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78327-160-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78204-911-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782049111
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782049111/type/BOOK
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