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Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest, and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their suspicion of force as government policy helped to inform critical choices. The traditional British naval strategy of the mercantilist era persisted into the early nineteenth century when the Royal Navy's policing of the seas against piracy and the slave trade antagonized trade rivals, particularly America. By the 1850s, Britain granted immunity to neutral shipping - after much debate, with some of the century's leading thinkers, including Mill and Marx, taking prominent parts in the naval controversies. This book examines these events, as well as the writings of contemporary naval strategists including the Colomb brothers. It also discusses the strategic posture of the Admiralty and its opponents before and during the war against Germany in 1914.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I: Social-Imperialism -- II: Social-Darwinism: Benjamin Kidd and Karl Pearson -- III: A Party of National Efficiency: The Liberal-Imperialists and the Fabians -- IV: Joseph Chamberlain's 'Squalid Argument' -- V: The Social-Imperialism of the Tariff Reform League -- VI: Fabianism and Liberal-Imperialism, 1903-1914 -- VII: The Two Imperialisms -- VIII: Sir Halford Mackinder: Theorist of Imperialism -- IX: Viscount Milner: Social-Imperial Idealist -- X: William Cunningham: National Economist -- XI: Sir William Ashley as 'Socialist of the Chair' -- XII: Lord Roberts and Robert Blatchford -- XIII: Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' of political economy, from the standpoint of a historian rather than an economist, which were crucial not only to the construction of theories of capitalist imperialism, but also served as a spur both to efforts at colonization, and to establishing a British Workshop of the World