Disciplining the Empire - Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Kinkel is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University. Klappentext Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain¿s empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up. Zusammenfassung Sarah Kinkel shows that the rise of British naval power was neither inevitable nor unquestioned: it was the outcome of fierce battles over the shape of Britain's empire and the bonds of political authority. The Navy was one of many battlefields where British subjects debated whether the empire would be ruled from Parliament down or the people up.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Kinkel
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780674976207
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97620-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards