Sacred vessels : the cult of the battleship and the rise and the U.S. Navy /
Sacred Vessels is an irreverent account of the modern battleship and its place in American naval history from the sinking of the coal-fired Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf in 1991. With provocative insight and wit, Robert O�...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2177219 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a fatal vision
- In the beginning : traditions of the naval world
- Upon this rock : the technological revolution and the prophet Mahan
- Crusaders in blue and the grail of seapower
- Sacred vessel : the dreadnought
- The evil below ... and above
- Trial by fire : battle in the North Sea
- Crisis of faith : protecting the North Atlantic
- Martyrdom : dreadnoughts in the wake of Versailles
- The Washington Naval Conference
- Life after death : rehabilitating the dreadnought
- Conclusion : vampires of seapower.