(Source: Palgrave Macmillan)
Palgrave
Macmillan has just published a book on mine warfare, international law, and
Britain’s relationship with these issues during the early 20th century.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book
examines Britain’s complex relationship with the mine in the years 1900-1915.
The development of mine warfare represented a unique mix of challenges and
opportunities for Britain in the years before the First World War. The mine
represented the antithesis of British maritime culture in material form, and
attempts were made to limit its use under international law. At the same time,
mine warfare offered the Royal Navy a solution to its most difficult strategic
problem. Richard Dunley explores the contested position occupied by the mine in
the attitudes of British policy makers, and in doing so sheds new light on the
overlapping worlds of culture, strategy and international law.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Richard Dunley
is Principal Records Specialist at the National Archives, UK. His previous
publications examine British defence, strategic and foreign policy in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Pages 1-7
Mining in a Cultural Context Pages 9-21
British Attitudes
to Mining Before 1904 Pages 23-44
Mine Warfare in
the Russo-Japanese War: The Royal Navy Perspective Pages 45-71
The Russo-Japanese
War: Outrage and Reaction Pages 73-95
Mining and
International Law: Britain and the Hague Conference Pages 97-130
The Strategic
Shift: The Origins of British Mine Warfare Pages 131-163
Development and
Institutionalisation: Offensive Mining 1906–1909 Pages 165-192
Strategic Flux
and Technical Failure Pages 193-224
The Test of
Conflict Pages 225-266
War, Law and
Diplomacy Pages 267-295
Conclusion Pages
297-303
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