Militarism in a Global Age Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I 1st Edition by Dirk Bonker ISBN 0801450403 978-0801450402

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ISBN 10: 0801450403 

ISBN 13: 978-0801450402

Author: Dirk Bönker

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk Bonker explores the far-reaching ambitions of naval officers before World War I as they advanced navalism, a particular brand of modern militarism that stressed the paramount importance of sea power as a historical determinant. Aspiring to make their own countries into self-reliant world powers in an age of global empire and commerce, officers viewed the causes of the industrial nation, global influence, elite rule, and naval power as inseparable. Characterized by both transnational exchanges and national competition, the new maritime militarism was technocratic in its impulses; its makers cast themselves as members of a professional elite that served the nation with its expert knowledge of maritime and global affairs.

American and German navalist projects differed less in their principal features than in their eventual trajectories. Over time, the pursuits of these projects channeled the two naval elites in different directions as they developed contrasting outlooks on their bids for world power and maritime force. Combining comparative history with transnational and global history, Militarism in a Global Age challenges traditional, exceptionalist assumptions about militarism and national identity in Germany and the United States in its exploration of empire and geopolitics, warfare and military-operational imaginations, state formation and national governance, and expertise and professionalism.

Table of contents:

Part I. Military Force, National Industry, and Global Politics: Naval Strategies of World Power
Chapter 1: World Power in a Global Age
Chapter 2: Big-Power Confrontations over Empire
Chapter 3: Maritime Force, Threat, and War

Part II. The Cult of the Battle: Approaches to Maritime Warfare
Chapter 4: War of Battle Fleets
Chapter 5: Planning for Victory
Chapter 6: Commerce, Law, and the Limitation of War

Part III. The Quest for Power: The Navy, Governance, and the Nation
Chapter 7: Naval Elites and the State
Chapter 8: Manufacturing Consent
Chapter 9: A Politics of Social Imperialism

Part IV. A Militarism of Experts: Naval Professionalism and the Making of Navalism
Chapter 10: Of Sciences, Sea Power, and Strategy
Chapter 11: Between Leadership and Intraservice Conflict

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