British naval policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli era, 1866-1880 / John F. Beeler.
This book examines British naval policy during the mid-Victorian period, with an emphasis on the political, economic, and foreign relations contexts within which naval policy was formulated. This period has sometimes been characterized as the "dark age" of modern British naval history, ref...
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Industrial Revolution and the Navy
- 2. Strategic Parameters
- 3. Administration, Politics, and Economics
- 4. Derby, Disraeli, and a Mutinous Admiralty, 1866-1868
- 5. Hugh Childers at the Admiralty, 1868-1870
- 6. Of Captains and Lords
- 7. Collapse and Recovery, 1870-1874
- 8. Politics, Finance, and the Navy, 1874-1880
- 9. Admiralty Administration: Childers, Goschen, and the Historians
- 10. Rivals
- 11. Strategic Planning and Imperial Defense
- 12. Conclusion
- 13. Epilogue: The End of an Era.