Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591142970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in the U.K. . He specializes in Anglo-American 19th-century history, particularly the American Civil War and the British Empire. Howard Fuller is Senior Lecturer of War Studies in the Department of History as well as a Core Member of the History and Governance Research Institute (HAGRI)'s Conflict Studies Research Group at the University of Wolverhampton
More than just armor Clyde's friend Howard J. Fuller's Clad in Iron: the American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power must be seen in relation to James Phinney Baxter's Introduction of the Ironclad Warship. The latter book first appeared in 1933, and has long been regarded as the definitive text showing the position of the ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (nee USS Merrimack) in the evolution of naval architecture. He showed that the two vessels stood directly in the line of ironclad vessels that had started in France and by 186. "The other side of the pond" according to T. Stibal. This book puts the American Civil War's naval expansion in context with the concurrent activities of European navies. While the Union was busy bringing the South to heel, Britain and France were locked in the first arms race of the Steam Age. And, most of the decisions taken by the Royal Navy were made with one wary eye on what Cousin Jonathan was doing across the pond.This relatively dry account looks at the Royal Navy's concerns and reactions to America's first ironclads. Dealing more with political and economic realit. "TOO LONG A VOYAGE" according to Michael A. Mendelson. More thesis than a well focused contribution to an area already rife with many technology and battle books. The premise here is a supposed comparison between British and U.S. foreign policy with the" iron clad" as the lynchpin,i.e. U.S. v Britain and the Confederacy and Britain v.the U.S. and France.The fundamental premise fails; first,as the "Trent" affair demonstrated, the U.S. pursued an avowedly "one war at a time" foreign policy; second, the U.S,unlike Britain,did not have an overseas empire to tend to and; third,un
Choice Between 1860 and 1863, British and American navies faced a technological revolution in ship construction admist a "cold war" with the Trent crisis, British aid to the South, and fears of a blockade felt by Northern cities. Most prominent were the monitors. Catholic Library World --Choice . Fuller provides a detailed description of the players--private engineers, admiralty, contractors, Department of the Navy, departments and officers, diplomats, and politicians--on both sides of the Atlantic.The book should be
Foreign intervention--explicitly in the form of British naval power--represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. The most famous warship of the American Civil War, the USS Monitor, was the front-line weapon in a grand strategic initiative established by the U.S. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular gov