The Great Naval Game

by Jan Rüger

Book Overview

This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in the fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches that were watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. At once royal rituals and national entertainments, these were events...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521875765
• ISBN13: 9780521875769
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"