Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Lambert received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1992. He has held fellowships at Yale University, Wolfson College, Oxford, and Southampton University. He lives in London and Pasadena, California. Klappentext Lambert explains how Great Britain's naval leaders responded to these non-military, cultural challenges under the direction of Admiral Sir John Fisher, the service head of the Admiralty from 1904 to 1910, who believed in a radically new approach to naval defense. For mainly political reasons, however, Fisher concealed his military technological revolutionand worked surreptitiously to create a new model fleet capable of protecting all of Britain's imperial interests across the globe Zusammenfassung This volume explores the intrigue and negotiations between the Admiralty and domestic politicians and social reformers before World War I. It also explains how Britain's naval leaders responded to non-military! cultural challenges under the direction of Adimiral Sir John Fisher.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Lambert, Nicholas A Lambert, Nicholas A. Lambert
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2002
• EAN: 9781570034923
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-492-3
• No. of pages: 428
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Studies in Maritime History; Studies in Maritime History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration