Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon (Britain and the World)

Gough, B.

ISBN 10: 1349346349 / ISBN 13: 9781349346349

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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pp. 374.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pax Britannica: Ruling the Waves and Keeping the Peace before Armageddon (Britain and the World)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349346349
• ISBN 13: 9781349346349
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica , in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental challenges.

About the Author

Barry Gough is the author of many prize-winning and critically acclaimed histories dealing with the Royal Navy and the British Empire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of Kings College London, UK, and Archives By-Fellow Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. His most recent book is Juan de Fuca's Strait: Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams (2012).