Sacred Vessels

The Cult of the Battleship and the Rise of the US Navy

Robert L. O'Connell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

1993
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-508006-3 (ISBN)

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Awesome in size, immensely powerful and ingrained in the socio-economic and psychological structure of the U.S. Navy, the battleship served as chief guardsman of territory, reigning as monarch of the sea. For two hundred years it played an essential role in U.S. military affairs, yet as Robert L O'Connell demonstrates, the battleship was never actually an effective weapon of war - even before advances in submarine and aircraft technology rendered it impractical. Battleships have never played an actively important role in the outcome of any modern war but they have continued to be resurrected and refurbished, capturing the hearts of the public with their awesome beauty and size, and the myopic devotion of the military with their patently inefficient presence. Sacred Vessels tells the story of the evolution of the battleship. It is a cautionary tale about the often unacknowledged influence of human faith, culture and tradition and of the exceedingly important, costly and, supposedly rational, process, of nations arming themselves for war.

Robert L. O'Connell, Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intellegence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center, has also written Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (Oxford, 1989) and is a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.6.1993
Zusatzinfo	halftones
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	214 x 147 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-508006-8 / 0195080068
ISBN-13	978-0-19-508006-3 / 9780195080063
Zustand	Neuware