Download PDF by Andrew Lambert,Robert J. Blyth: The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age

By Andrew Lambert,Robert J. Blyth

HMS Dreadnought (1906) is heavily linked to the age of empire, the Anglo-German antagonism and the naval palms race sooner than the 1st international struggle. but it used to be additionally associated with various different contexts - political and cultural, nationwide and overseas - that have been important to the Edwardian interval. The chapters during this quantity examine those contexts and their intersection during this symbolically charged icon of the Edwardian age. In reassessing the main well-known warship of the interval, this assortment not just considers the strategic and operational effect of this 'all great gun' battleship, but in addition explores the numerous meanings Dreadnought had in politics and tradition, together with nationwide and imperial sentiment, gender kinfolk and ideas of masculinity, public spectacle and pictures of expertise, and concepts approximately modernity and decline. the quantity brings jointly historians from diversified backgrounds, engaged on naval and technological heritage, politics and diplomacy, in addition to tradition and gender. This assorted method of the topic guarantees that the booklet bargains a well timed revision of the Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age.'

Show description

Read Online or Download The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age PDF

Best world history books

Get LUST FOR INCA GOLD: An intriguing true story of exploration, PDF

LUST FOR INCA GOLD is a masterful mixture of historical past, biography, legend and storytelling, supplying a definitive account of the Llanganati Treasure tale. The narrative is expounded via firsthand debts of the Spanish Conquistadores and well-known explorers of the quarter; Richard Spruce, Captain Blacke, Jordan Stabler, Colonel Brooks, Captain Loch, Commander Dyott, Luciano Andrade, Rolf Blomberg and Eugene Brunner.

The Enlightenment and religion: The Myths of Modernity - download pdf or read online

The Enlightenment and faith: The myths of modernity bargains a serious survey of spiritual switch and its reasons in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes an intensive problem to the permitted perspectives in conventional Enlightenment reports. targeting Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century spiritual switch has actually been developed upon scant proof and assumption, specifically the concept the idea of the enlightened resulted in modernity.

Download e-book for kindle: Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy & Lesley Adkins

For over 3 and a part years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar used to be besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by means of the overpowering forces of Spain and France. It grew to become the longest siege in British historical past, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was once blamed for the lack of the yank colonies within the battle of Independence.

Versailles - download pdf or read online

An pleasing and eye-opening examine the French Revolution, by way of Stephen Clarke, writer of one thousand Years of exasperating the French and A 12 months within the Merde. Versailles seems again on the French Revolution and the way it’s surrounded in a fable. In 1789, virtually nobody in France desired to oust the king, not to mention guillotine him.

Additional info for The Dreadnought and the Edwardian Age

Example text

Download PDF sample