TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Greg AU - Neilson,Keith AU - Schurman,Donald M. TI - Far-flung lines: essays on imperial defence in honour of Donald Mackenzie Schurman T2 - Cass series: naval policy and history SN - 0714646830 (cased) : U1 - 941.082 20 PY - 1997///, c1996 CY - London PB - Frank Cass KW - Great Britain KW - Royal Navy KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Military policy KW - Colonies KW - Defenses KW - Military operations N1 - Bibliography: p217-228; Introduction / Greg Kennedy and Keith Neilson -- Perception in the Midst of Chaos / Karl Revells -- Steam, Strategy and Shurman: Imperial Defence in the Post-Crimean Era, 1856-1905 / John Beeler -- Economy Or Empire? The Fleet Unit Concept and the Quest for Collective Security in the Pacific, 1909-1914 / Nicholas Lambert -- The Empire and the USA in British Strategy in the Spring of 1917 / David French -- 'For Diplomatic, Economic, Strategy and Telegraphic Reasons': British Imperial Defence, the Middle East and India, 1914-1918 / Keith Neilson -- 'It Is Our Business in the Navy to Command the Seas': the Last Decade of British Maritime Supremacy, 1919-1929 / John Ferris -- The Royal Navy and the Defence of the British Empire, 1928-1934 / Orest Babij -- 1935: A Snapshot of British Imperial Defence in the Far East / Greg Kennedy ER -