Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations ix
4. List of contributors xv
5. List of abbreviations xviii
6. General introduction and acknowledgements xxiii
7. Acknowledgements xxvi
8. Introduction (English) 1
9. Introduction (français) 3
10. The sea and seapower within the international system 5
11. Germany, 1870–1914: a military empire turns to the sea 16
12. The Imperial Japanese Navy, 1937–1942 27
13. The US as a new naval power, 1890–1919 38
14. World war suspended and resumed: Russia, 1919–1940 49
15. Freedom and control of the seas, 1856–1919 59
16. UNCLOS and the modern law of the sea 70
17. New navies and maritime powers 81
18. Britain, 1815–1850: naval power or sea power? 92
19. Free trade, industrialization and the global economy, 1815–1914 103
20. Coal and the sea 115
21. Shipbuilding and power: some reflections 126
22. Maintaining naval hegemony in the industrial age: Britain, 1850–1889 137
23. Naval armaments races, 1889–1922 148
24. The British Empire and the war at sea, 1914–1918 158
25. Steaming worldwide waters: adaptation and transformation in the Netherlands 168
26. Austria-Hungary: an inland empire looks to the sea 180
27. The Ottoman Empire and the sea, 1789–1922 191
28. Empire and trade without a major navy: Portugal 202
29. Italy, 1861–1914: did the sea build a state and an empire? 210
30. Imperial failure of the industrial age: Spain, 1805–1898 220
31. Denmark: a small power with a growing shipping industry 231
32. Sweden and the sea in the 19^th century 242
33. Navies, internal order and trade in South America, 1830–1914 252
34. The sea and the American Civil War 263
35. The wider Caribbean during the 19^th and 20^th centuries 274
36. Ship canals 285
37. Oil and water 295
38. Imperial failure in the industrial age: China, 1842–1911 308
39. China turns to the sea, 1912–1990 319
40. India and the sea 329
41. Les îles d’Océanie et l’ouverture sur la mer à l’heure de la première mondialisation contemporaine 340
42. Maritime labour 353
43. Fisheries 364
44. Geographical determinism and the growth of the American whaling and sealing industries 374
45. La France et la mer, 1815–1914 387
46. Russia tries the new naval technologies, 1815–1914 398
47. The First World War and Japan: from the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to the Washington Treaty 412
48. The sea in the Great War 426
49. The Mediterranean and World War I 437
50. Germany in World War One: naval strategy and warfare 446
51. The sea in German grand strategy, 1919–1939/40 458
52. The case of Germany in the first part of World War II, 1939–1942 470
53. Britain on the defensive, 1939–1942 479
54. Britain and the sea, 1943–1945 489
55. The Washington Treaty era, 1919–1936: naval arms limitation 500
56. The Washington Treaty era: neutralising the Pacific 510
57. The United States and the Second World War 521
58. The sea as a decisive factor in the Second World War 531
59. The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919–1940 542
60. The Italian offensive, 1940–1941 553
61. The sea and the Cold War 563
62. NATO as a maritime alliance in the Cold War 574
63. The sea and the Soviet Empire 584
64. The sea and the economic slump, 1919–1939 594
65. Océans et globalisation depuis 1945 605
66. America’s Pacific power in a global age 616
67. Les nouvelles ressources océaniques 628
68. Hiérarchies portuaires dans le monde et changements régionaux de connectivité maritime, 1890–2010 639
69. Between empires and institutions: non-state actors and the sea since 1945 658
70. The narcotics trade and the sea 669
71. Climate change and world trade 680
72. La France et la mer depuis 1945: une mutation inachevée 693
73. Changes in naval power and seaborne trade in postwar Asian waters 708
74. Looking to the future 719
75. Conclusion (English) 729
76. Conclusion (français) 738
77. General conclusion 749
78. Conclusion générale 781