The Royal Navy 1930-1990: Innovation and Defense

by Richard Harding (Editor)

Overview

This new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990.

Successful adaptation to new conditions has been critical to all navies at all times. To naval historians the significance and process of change is not new, but in recent years innovation has been increasingly studied within a number of other disciplines, providing new theoretical positions and insights. This study examines key case studies of change, some successful others less so, which place the experience of the Royal Navy within a variety of economic and strategic contexts. Together these studies provide excellent new insights against which to set recent ideas on innovation and provide a stimulus to more research by historians and scholars in other disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714685816
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/2004
Series:	Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, List of contributors, Foreword, Preface, Introduction, 1. Managing the aerial threat, 2. Amphibious warfare, 1930-1939, 3. Naval aviation, 1930-2000, 4. Welding and the British shipbuilding industry, 5. Anti submarine warfare, 1939-1945, 6. The Royal Navy and the challenge of the fast submarine, 1945-1954, 7. CVA-01, 8. The Royal Navy and the guided missile, 9. Amphibious operations 1945-1998, 10. Electronics and the Royal Navy, Select bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

'This book is an important contribution and provides a wonderful overview of some of the problems and issues faced by the Royal Navy since the 1930s. It is highly recommended to anyone interested in naval history.' - The Northern Mariner

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