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Gunboats, Empire and the China Station: The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia de Matthew Heaslip

Gunboats, Empire and the China Station: The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia

Autor Matthew Heaslip
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350213562
ISBN-10: 135021356X
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Explores the role of the Navy and its everyday practices in maintaining the British Empire in 1920s East Asia

Notă biografică

Matthew Heaslip is Lecturer in Naval History at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Cuprins

ContentsTable of Illustrations Introduction Part I: Joining the China StationLooking Beyond the Battle-Fleet The Royal Navy's Role in Britain's Interwar Foreign Policy Britain's China Conundrum Part II: Between China and Japan, the China Station's Strategic Balance The Right Warships in the Right Places? China: Friend or Foe? Surplus to Requirements: The China Station Ashore The Hong Kong Question The Cooperation Challenge Europe's Retreat and an Emergent 'Special Relationship' Part III: Adapting to a New China in a Violent Peace Britain's Changing Interests in China The Royal Navy's Growing Piracy Challenge An Exceptional Deployment: the Shanghai Task Force Britain's Global Struggle Against CommunismA Changing Role in Protecting British Civilians Part IV: Technological development and imperial policingMaintaining Imperial Prestige: Hermes the Trickster Understanding China Responding to Crises Naval Gunfire at Wanxian and Nanjing Controlling the Violence Part V: Changing Attitudes, Ideas, and Approaches Late-Victorian Gunboat Diplomacy in East Asia A Failed Attempt at Returning to Pre-War WaysThe Impact of the May Thirtieth Incident A Double Crisis: Gunboat Diplomacy Living up to its Reputation The Gunboat Retreat Sailing to War ConclusionThe Royal Navy's Peacetime FrontlineAppendix: Examples of Key Warship Types Bibliography Index

Recenzii

The depth of Heaslip's research is evident throughout the text and includes full endnotes for each chapter. ... Gunboats, Empire and the China Station will be a particularly valuable resource to those undertaking research on the development of British maritime strategy in the 20th century, the evolving naval balance in East Asia in the 1920s, and ... China's relations with the major powers during what was a tumultuous period in Chinese history. Although the book is written principally for an academic audience, it will be accessible to the interested lay reader. Heaslip writes in an engaging and informative manner.
This is an excellent book and one of the most important academic contributions to the understanding of the tactical, operational and strategic significance of the Royal Navy in the Far East for decades. The story links historical evidence and events to current day RN operations, showing with great clarity and authoritative research that these "new" missions for the RN are indeed just things they have done before.
This impressive book makes an important contribution to British naval history. Heaslip's rich and detailed study shows that the interwar period was far from peaceful in East Asia, where the Royal Navy's China Station was continuously engaged in anti-piracy operations, "showing the flag", and "gunboat diplomacy". This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the British sea power.
Matthew Heaslip's Gunboats, Empire and the China Station transforms our understanding of the Royal Navy in the 1920s. Rather than a sleepy backwater, the China Station was at the cutting edge of the Royal Navy's adaptation to the challenges of policing a volatile imperial frontier in a tumultuous decade. Heaslip's engaging study of command, operations and technological innovation is essential reading for historians of the Royal Navy, the British Empire and the international politics of East Asia in the era of imperial retreat.