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Author | : Matthew Heaslip |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350176206 |
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Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the importance of the China Station to the British imperial system, foreign policy and East Asian geopolitics, while also revealing the lived experiences of these imperial outposts. Following their immersion into a new world and the challenges they encountered along the way, it considers how its naval officers were perceived by the Chinese populations of the ports they visited, how the two communities interacted and what this meant at a time of 'peace'. Against the changing nature of Britain's informal empire in the 1920s, Gunboats, Empire and the China Station highlights the complex nature of naval operations in-between major conflicts, and calls into question how peaceful this peacetime truly was.
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849084092 |
Download Yangtze River Gunboats 1900–49 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China as ruthless warlords fought numerous small wars to increase their power and influence. This book covers the gunboats of all the major nations that stationed naval forces in China, including America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Japan, and looks at such famous incidents as the Japanese bombing of the USS Patay and the dramatic escape of the HMS Amethyst from Communist forces in 1947, which marked the end of the gunboat era.
Author | : Gerald Sandford Graham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Deals not only with the details of the amphibious warfare which led to the capture of Peking, but also with European rivalries, American trade competition, major crises such as the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, internal conditions in China, and missionary enterprise.
Author | : Bernard D. Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Gunboats and Marines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The 1920s were years of turmoil in China, as revolution and civil war spread throughout the country. The many Americans then in China -- primarily missionaries, businessmen, and diplomats -- were caught in this upheaval. Their safety often depended on the armed protection of the sailors and marines of the United States Asiatic Fleet. In the middle 1920s, however, this fleet consisted of one cruiser, two divisions of submarines, about twenty destroyers, a dozen gunboats, and assigned Marine Corps detachments. This book tells the dramatic story of the role the United States Navy played during this tumultuous period of Chinese history"--Jacket.
Author | : Jonathan Parkinson |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788035216 |
Download The Royal Navy, China Station: 1864 - 1941 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A definitive history of the Royal Navy’s China Station. In the The Navy List for April 1864 the China Station was first shown as a separate Royal Navy Station . It remained as such until the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941 which was to signal the end of that era. In addition to a precis of the lives and naval careers of each of the Commanders in Chief of the China Station, this volume also gives relevant information outlining something of the concurrent internal affairs of China and Japan. Both are very different but sad tales, the former in decline towards the end of the Manchu Ch’ing dynasty and then into the chaotic 1920’s and 1930’s, and the latter increasingly adopting a militaristic attitude which was to result in their disaster of the Pacific War of 1941-1945. As a reminder of these days long gone are interwoven brief references to the British Consular Service. This is especially relevant for China, and for a shorter period for Japan during that era of extraterritoriality. Mention is also made of the British Colonial Service with whom, necessarily, the Navy worked very closely. In addition, being one important reason for it all, frequent references are made to a few British shipping and trading interests together with those of some other nations. All of these areas are linked together to give a definitive history of this very important Royal Navy Station.
Author | : Glenn F. Howell |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2015-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786480912 |
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Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202 leather-bound volumes--one of the largest sources in existence, perhaps the largest, of servicemen's observations of service in China during that country's struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II. This work presents Howell's diary from June 6, 1920, to September 23, 1921, during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River. First comes a biography of Howell, an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920, and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years. Howell's time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections. Preceding each, the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries. Howell covers a range of topics, including the Chinese people, various important locales (e.g., the Three Gorges), making official visits, (his first as a captain), officer-enlisted man relations, opium, the steam navy, people who influenced him (S. Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo, skipper of the Meitan), missionaries and other foreigners in China (including U.S. military retirees), and "trackers" (China's human beasts of burden.)
Author | : Greg Kennedy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134252463 |
Download Imperial Defence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of imperial defence and defence of empire, so chapters will be historiographical in nature, discussing the major features of each key component of imperial defence, areas of agreement and disagreement in the existing literature on critical interpretations, introducing key individuals and positions and commenting on the appropriateness of existing studies, as well as identifying a raft of new directions for future research.
Author | : Robert Erwin Johnson |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 1052 |
Release | : 1875 |
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Download The London and China Telegraph Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Australia. Parliament |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1524 |
Release | : 1924 |
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