TY - BOOK AU - Bönker,Dirk TI - Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States Before World War I T2 - The United States in the World Series SN - 9780801463884 AV - VA513 U1 - 359/.03094309034 PY - 2012/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Sea-power -- Germany -- History -- 19th century KW - Sea-power -- Germany -- History -- 20th century KW - Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 19th century KW - Sea-power -- United States -- History -- 20th century KW - Militarism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century KW - Militarism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century KW - Militarism -- United States -- History -- 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Maritime Militarism in Two Modern Nation-States -- Part I: Military Force, National Industry, and Global Politics: Naval Strategies of World Power -- 1. World Power in a Global Age -- 2. Big-Power Confrontations over Empire -- 3. Maritime Force, Threat, and War -- Part II: The Cult of the Battle: Approaches to Maritime Warfare -- 4. War of Battle Fleets -- 5. Planning for Victory -- 6. Commerce, Law, and the Limitation of War -- Part III: The Quest for Power: The Navy, Governance, and the Nation -- 7. Naval Elites and the State -- 8. Manufacturing Consent -- 9. A Politics of Social Imperialism -- Part IV: A Militarism of Experts: Naval Professionalism and the Making of Navalism -- 10. Of Sciences, Sea Power, and Strategy -- 11. Between Leadership and Intraservice Conflict -- Conclusion: Navalism and Its Trajectories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Dirk Bönker explores the far-reaching ambitions of German and U.S. naval officers before World War I as they advanced navalism, a particular brand of modern militarism that stressed the paramount importance of sea power UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138295 ER -