Deterrence Through Strength: British Naval Power and Foreign Policy Under Pax Britannica (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)

by RebeccaBerensMatzke (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $64.89

  Reveals how Britain's diplomatic and naval authority in the early Victorian period was not circumstantial but rather based on real economic and naval strength as well as on resolute political leadership. The Royal Navy's main role in the nineteenth century was to be a deterrent force, a role it skilfully played.