Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Maritime Militarism in Two Modern Nation-States 1 Part I. Military Force, National Industry, and Global Politics: Naval Strategies of World Power 1. World Power in a Global Age 23 2. Big-Power Confrontations over Empire 47 3. Maritime Force,Threat, and War 73 Part II. The Cult of the Battle: Approaches to Maritime Warfare 4. War of Battle Fleets 101 5. Planning forVictory 125 6. Commerce, Law, and the Limitation of War 149 vi Contents Part III. The Quest for Power:The Navy, Governance, and the Nation 7. Naval Elites and the State 175 8. Manufacturing Consent 200 9. A Politics of Social Imperialism 224 Part IV . A Militarism of Experts: Naval Professionalism and the Making of Navalism 10. Of Sciences, Sea Power, and Strategy 251 11. Between Leadership and Intraservice Conflict 275 Conclusion: Navalism and Its Trajectories 301 Notes 311 Bibliography 377 Index 413 ...