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02742aam a2200409 i 4500 001 D859B8266B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140812t20142014enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014023816 020 $a 1107658993 (paperback) 020 $a 9781107658998 (paperback) 020 $a 1107056950 020 $a 9781107056954 035 $a (OCoLC)887186324 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d SILO 050 00 $a VA454 L67 2014 100 1 $a Lisio, Donald J., $e author. 245 10 $a British naval supremacy and Anglo-American antagonisms, 1914-1930 / $c Donald J. Lisio. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xiii, 332 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. Clashing world interests -- 2. Washington Conference legacy -- 3. Beatty's Japanese war plan -- 4. Churchill's challenge -- 5. Beatty embraces arms control -- 6. The General Boards' new hope -- 7. American arms-control politics -- 8. Beatty takes control -- 9. Combat equivalency -- 10. Beatty's new strategies -- 11. Conference shocks -- 12. Hardening positions -- 13. The failure of the Anglo-Japanese Accord -- 14. Cabinet crisis -- 15. Final efforts -- 16. Breakdown and recriminations -- 17. Conclusion. 520 2 $a "During World War I, British naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none,' one so powerful that Great Britain could not again successfully challenge America's vital economic interests. This book reveals that when the United States offered to substitute naval equality for its emerging naval supremacy, the British, nonetheless, used the resulting two major international arms-control conferences of the 1920s to ensure its continued naval dominance"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Royal Navy $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sea-power $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sea-power $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History, Naval $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History, Naval $y 20th century. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/56954/cover/9781107056954.jpg 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826102520.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D859B8266B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search