The great naval game
The great naval game : Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007, XV-337 p.
Collection Studies in the social and cultral history of modern warfare ; 26
ISBN 978-0-521-11461-5
EUR 845
This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in the fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches that were watched by hundreds of thousands of spectators. At once royal rituals and national entertainments, these were events at which tradition, power and claims to the sea were played out between the nations. This was a public stage on which the domestic and the foreign intersected and where the modern mass market of media and consumerism collided with politics and international relations. Conflict and identity were literally acted out between the two countries. By focusing on this dynamic arena, Jan Rüger offers a fascinating new history of the Anglo-German antagonism.
Axe de recherches :
- Équipe 3 : Du local aux empires : appartenances, institutions, conflits
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Corinne HÉLIN (23 juillet 2013). The great naval game. Regards sur HARTIS : le carnet des doctorant·e·s. Consulté le 16 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qgdl

