This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in the fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches that were watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. At once royal rituals and national entertainments, these were events at which tradition, power and claims to the sea were played out between the nations. This was a public stage on which the domestic and the foreign intersected and where the modern mass market of media and consumerism collided with politics and international relations. Conflict and identity were literally acted out between the two countries. By focusing on this dynamic arena, Jan Ruger offers a fascinating new history of the Anglo-German antagonism.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521114615
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96223294
Product Key Features
Author
Jan Ruger
Publication Name
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
354 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
520g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jan Ruger
Series Title
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare