Chapters in this book

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