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Britain and the Mine, 1900-1915

Culture, Strategy and International Law

Erschienen am 18.05.2018, Auflage: 1/2018
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ISBN/EAN: 9783319728193
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xi, 317 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 317 p. 1 illus.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

This book examines Britain's complex relationship with the mine in the years before the First World War. The development of mine warfare represented a unique mix of challenges and opportunities for Britain in the years before the First World War. The mine represented the antithesis of British maritime culture in material form, and attempts were made to limit its use under international law. At the same time, mine warfare offered the Royal Navy a solution to its most difficult strategic problem. Richard Dunley explores the contested position occupied by the mine in the attitudes of British policy makers, and in doing so sheds new light on the overlapping worlds of culture, strategy and international law.  

Autorenportrait

Richard Dunley is Principal Records Specialist at the National Archives, UK. His previous publications examine British defence, strategic and foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.