Power at Sea, Volume 1: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918

In this first volume of Power at Sea, Lisle A. Rose recalls the early twentieth-century world of emerging, predatory industrial nations engaging in the last major scramble for global markets and empire. During this time, imposing war fleets became pawns of power politics, and between 1890 and 1940 four of them-Britain's Royal Navy, the Imperial German Navy, the Japanese Navy, and the U. S. Navy-set the tone and rhythm of international life. Important naval battles were fought in those days of ostensible peace, and Rose brings to life the encounters of the still young and relatively small industrial fighting fleets.