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In defence of naval supremacy : finance, technology, and British naval policy, 1889-1914

Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature, and consequences of the "Dreadnought Revolution" of 1906.
Print Book, English, 1993
Routledge, London, 1993
History
xix, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780415086745, 9780044451044, 0415086744, 0044451040
28909592
Part One 1889-1906: The Strategy of Numerical Superiority - Naval Rivalry and Financial Crisis; The Strategy of Qualitative Superiority - Sir John Fisher and Technological Radicalism, 1904-1906; The Conception and Initial Development of the Pollen Fire Control System, 1900-1906. Part Two 1906-1914: Conflict - the Fisher Strategy Disrupted, 1906; Confusion - Fire Control and Capital Ship Design, 1906-1909; Compromise - Financial Revolution and Technological Reaction, 1909-1914.
Includes index