ID: | 21281 |
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Entry Text: | Semmel, Bernard. Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest, and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986, xii, 239 pp. Analysis of ideology & strategy; relationship between British internal & external policy during past 200 years; Britain seen as offender: right of search, interfered with slave trade, violated freedom of seas, navalism of late 19th century; but "liberalism" stopped Napoleon, independence in South America, free trade, Open Door, ending slave trade. |