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By Jon K. Hendrickson
Provides a new interpretation of events in the Mediterranean before World War I, including a relatively unknown series of naval and diplomatic decisions that impacted the outbreak of the war.
Available from the Naval Institute Press, www.nip.org.
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BOOK NEWS: Crisis in the Mediterranean: Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904-1914
By Jon K. Hendrickson
Provides a new interpretation of events in the Mediterranean before World War I, including a relatively unknown series of naval and diplomatic decisions that impacted the outbreak of the war.
Available from the Naval Institute Press, www.nip.org.
By Jon K. Hendrickson
Provides a new interpretation of events in the Mediterranean before World War I, including a relatively unknown series of naval and diplomatic decisions that impacted the outbreak of the war.
Available from the Naval Institute Press, www.nip.org.
NAVAL COMPETITION AND GREAT POWER POLITICS, 1904-1914
By JON K. HENDRICKSON
JON K. HENDRICKSON was born in Slidell, Louisiana. After attending Williams College, he earned his PhD in military history from The Ohio State University in 2012. He was the first Class of 1957 Fellow in naval history at the United States Naval Academy
he geopolitical situation in the Mediterranean before the First World War generally has been ignored by historians. In the years leading up to the war, however, waning British control of the sea occupied the minds of leaders from Austria- Hungary, Italy, and France to the isles of Great Britain. This change was driven by three largely understudied events: t he weakening ability of the British Mediterranean Fleet to provide more ships for the North Sea, Austria-Hungary's decision to build a navy capable of operating in the Mediterranean, and Italy's decision to seek naval security in the Triple Alliance after the Italo- Turkish War. These three factors radically altered the Mediterranean situation in the years leading up to the First World War, and they forced Britain and France to seek accommodation from each other. These power shifts also prompted the French to undergo a rapid naval build up, commissioning new warships to defend their own interests as well as those of the British. All of this activity has been largely obscured by the July Crisis of 1914 and the ensuing world war. Traditional history has looked backward through the lens of the war in order to explain the situation in the Mediterranean in 1914. Hendrickson, however, reverses course, chronicling the naval and diplomatic events that unfolded in the region prior to the outbreak of fighting in order to understand how policymakers perceived the changing Mediterranean world they desperately wanted to control.
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The race for Mediterranean naval supremacy in the run-up to World War I has received little attention from historians on the implicit assumption that Britains withdrawal from the Mediterranean, Frances acceptance of the status quo, and Italys failure to come to the support of Germany and Austria-Hungary in the aftermath of Archduke Francis Ferdinands assassination were preordained. As Hendrickson shows, the reality was more complex, more problematic . . . and far more interesting. He paints a fascinating picture of competing imperial ambitions, nationalistic aspirations, and fiscally driven (and politically fraught) building plans that made the Mediterranean a seething cauldron of naval competition and diplomatic accommodation. In the event, the Italian- Ottoman war for control of Libya was a catalyst for change at precisely the rightor wrong moment, with enormous consequences. Hendrickson has provided an important and instructive corrective to the conventional wisdom.JOHN F. GUILMARTIN JR., author of A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith, editors This series is devoted to exploring the significance of the earths waterways while providing lively and important books that cover the spectrum of maritime history and nautical archaeology. Limited by neither geography nor time, volumes in the series contribute to the overall understanding of maritime history and can be read with profit by both general readers and specialist alike. Titles in the series:
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CRISIS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: Naval Competition and Great Power Politics, 1904-1914 By Jon K. Hendrickson Publication date: 15 April 2014 232 pp., 13 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover list price: $54.95 41.50 ISBN: 978-1-61251-475-8 History World War I eBook edition also available. AT BOOKSTORES, MEDIA INQUIRES & REVIEW IN ENGLAND AND ONLINE, OR DIRECT: COPIES, CONTACT: EUROPE, CONTACT: Customer Service Judy Heise, Publicist EUROSPAN GROUP U.S. Naval Institute NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS 3 Henrietta Street 291 Wood Road 291 Wood Road London WC2E 8LU Annapolis, MD 21402 Annapolis, MD 21402 United Kingdom 800-233-8764/410-268-6110 410-295-1028 / Fax: 410-295-1084 Tele: 1767 604972 www.usni.org jheise@usni.org www.eurospanbookstore.com
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