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list price: $41.95
edition:Hardcover
category: History
published: Jan 1988
ISBN:9780774802987
publisher:
UBC Press
Description
This book focuses on British defence policy in the period between the Seven Years' War and French intervention in the American Revolution. It is a study of coercive diplomacy and of the influence of defence considerations in foreign policy, particularly as applied to the naval relationship between Britain and Fance at the outbreak of the American Revolution -- a subject of considerable significance in understanding how American independence was made possible.
Contributor Notes
Nicholas Tracy is currently consultant to the official history of the Royal Canadian Navy being prepared by the Department of National Defence Directorate of History. He has taught at the University of New Brunswick, St. Thomas University, and the National University of Singapore.
Editorial Reviews
A thought-provoking introduction to the study of the two decades during which British naval power plummeted from its zenith to its apparent nadir.
— Canadian Historical Review
A valuable and stimulating contribution to the debate on the role of the Royal Navy and sea power in British history.
— Times Higher Education Supplement
An instructive book, not long but solidly based upon the records and an understanding of how such things work.
— Choice
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