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Empire, Technology and Seapower - Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston (Hardcover)
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Empire, Technology and Seapower - Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston (Hardcover)
Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
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This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the
Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the
mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the
period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the
mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even
self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it suffered
serious challenges in the form of expanding imperial commitments,
national security concerns, precarious diplomatic relations with
European Powers and the United States, and technological
advancements associated with the armoured warship at the height of
the so-called 'Pax Britannica'. Utilising a wealth of international
archival sources, this volume explores the introduction of the
monitor form of ironclad during the American Civil War, which
deliberately forfeited long-range power-projection for local,
coastal command of the sea. It looks at the ways in which the Royal
Navy responded to this new technology and uses a wealth of
international primary and secondary sources to ascertain how
decision-making at Whitehall affected that at Westminster. The
result is a better-balanced understanding of Palmerstonian
diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil
War, the early evolution of the modern capital ship (including the
catastrophic loss of the experimental sail-and-turret ironclad
H.M.S. Captain), naval power-projection, and the nature of
'empire', 'technology', and 'seapower'. This book will be of great
interest to all students of the Royal Navy, and of maritime and
strategic studies in general.
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