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Cross Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) in Education

Cross Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) in Education

This timely volume highlights the novel ways in which cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) technology is being used in STEM education. Today there are many exciting advances occurring in Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) and innovative applications in STEM education. Recent breakthroughs in technologies such VR AR and Mixed Reality (MR) as well as Cross Reality (XR) that leverages VR AR and MR are finally making it feasible for educators in STEM to adopt ILEs in their classrooms in a scalable manner. Edited by experienced XR researchers in STEM education Wang Ryoo and Winkelmann the book focuses on the use of ILEs for creating experiences that excite inspire and engage learners in STEM disciplines. Chapters include research studies and practical applications addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with adopting technologies. This book covers the entire spectrum of immersive platform types and ILEs such as desktop mobile wearable and room-based. It helps advance research and practice in the novel adoption of ILE technologies into STEM education from technical theoretical/conceptual empirical and/or methodological perspectives. Cross Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning Environments (ILE) in Education will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of education STEM education instructional design and technology educational research educational technology research methods information and communications technology and curriculum and instruction. This book was originally published as a special issue of Interactive Learning Environments. | Cross Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) in Education

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Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media

Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media

This book presents a study of the news coverage of extended reality technologies (virtual augmented and mixed reality; or XR) and how this news corresponds with the marketing of XR products. Focusing on a group of recently emerging technological products the book offers in-depth analysis of the news coverage of XR technologies and explores the overlap between news discourse and promotional discourse by comparing the way these products are framed in the news and their marketing materials. Using both quantitative and qualitative data it discusses the topics covered in XR news as well as the sources used and the specific framing techniques that appear in both XR news and marketing materials. In addition to these findings it also provides a set of frame categories that can be used by other researchers analysing the media coverage of emerging technologies. Ultimately arguing that the news represents XR in such a way that treats readers as consumers instead of citizens prioritising the interests of XR companies rather than news audiences this book will be of interest to students and researchers in media and communications discourse studies journalism PR and marketing and innovation studies as well as XR practitioners. | Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media

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Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe 1945–2023

Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe 1945–2023

This edited volume is a sequel to and a development of The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War 1936–2016 (2016). It focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War namely Ireland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland and the Vatican. Its transnational comparative and interdisciplinary approach addresses complex questions pertaining to collective remembrance national policies and politics and intellectual as well as cultural responses to neutrality during and after the conflict. The contributions are from a broad range of scholars working across the disciplines of history literature film media and cultural studies. Their thought-provoking chapters challenge many assumptions about neutrality in the post-war European and global context thereby filling a gap in the existing scholarship. Common themes that run through the volume include the intertwined and dynamic links between neutrality and moral responsibility during and after the Second World War the importance of memory politics and popular culture in shaping collective memories and the impact of the Holocaust in shifting traditional perspectives on neutrality since the 1990s. This volume will be of interest to undergraduates postgraduates scholars interested in the field of memory studies as well as non-specialist readers. | Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe 1945–2023

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Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime 1958-1968

Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime 1958-1968

Lottaz Iwama and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty’s opening for signatures ten years later the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the processes and reasons for the political and diplomatic actions the neutrals took and how those impacted the multilateral treaty negotiations. The book reveals new aspects of the dynamics that lead to this most consequential multilateral breakthrough of the Cold War. In part one three chapters analyze the international system from a bird’s eye perspective discussing neutrality nonalignment and the nuclear order. The second part features six detailed case studies on the politics and diplomacy of Ireland Sweden Finland Switzerland Austria and Yugoslavia. Overall this study suggests that despite the volatile and dangerous nature of the early Cold War the balance of the strategic environment enabled actors that were not part of one or the other alliance system to play a role in the interlocking global politics that finally created the nuclear regime that defines international relations until today. A valuable resource for scholars of nonproliferation the Cold War neutrality nonalignment and area studies. | Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime 1958-1968

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Towards a Climate-Neutral Europe Curbing the Trend

Towards a Climate-Neutral Europe Curbing the Trend

This book explains the EU’s climate policies in an accessible way to demonstrate the step-by-step approach that has been used to develop these policies and the ways in which they have been tested and further improved in the light of experience. The latest changes to the legislation are fully explained throughout. The chapters throughout this volume show that no single policy instrument can bring down greenhouse gas emissions. The challenge facing the EU as for many countries that have made pledges under the Paris Agreement is to put together a toolbox of policy instruments that is coherent delivers emissions reductions and is cost-effective. The book stands out by the fact it covers the EU’s emissions trading system the energy sector and other economic sectors including their development in the context of international climate policy. This accessible book will be of great relevance to students scholars and policy makers alike. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9789276082569 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Towards a Climate-Neutral Europe Curbing the Trend

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Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship Going Beyond a Gender Neutral Approach

Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship Going Beyond a Gender Neutral Approach

Contextual Embeddedness of Women’s Entrepreneurship brings together a range of research that provides powerful insights into the influences and restraints within a diverse set of gendered contexts including social political institutional religious patriarchal cultural family and economic in which female entrepreneurs around the world operate their businesses. In doing so the contributing authors demonstrate not only the importance of studying the contexts in how they shape women’s entrepreneurial activities but also how female entrepreneurs through their endeavours modify these contexts. Collectively the edited collection’s studies make a substantial contribution to the contextual embeddedness of women’s entrepreneurial activity provide numerous insights and provoke fruitful directions for future research on the important role of the contexts in which women’s entrepreneurial activities take place. This innovative and wide-ranging research anthology seeks to reframe and redirect research on gender and entrepreneurship and will appeal to all those interested in learning more about female entrepreneurship. | Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship Going Beyond a Gender Neutral Approach

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U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation Never Neutral

U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation Never Neutral

U. S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation is the first collection to examine the history of museums in the United States through the lens of the political and ideological underpinnings at the heart of exhibitions collecting and programming. Including contributions from historians art historians anthropologists academics and museum professionals the book argues that museums have always been embedded in the politics and culture of their time – whether that means a reification of hegemonic notions of race gender and progress or a challenge to those normative structures. Contributions probe the political nature of collection and interpretation as concept and practice and museum work as both reflective of and contributing to the politics and circulation of power in different historical moments. As a whole the volume provides detailed readings of museums that demonstrate the ways in which these trusted cultural institutions have intervened in shifting concepts of nation community indigeneity race citizenship inclusion identity localism and memory. U. S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation makes arguments about the historically and politically rooted nature of cultural production in museums that apply to institutions across the globe. It is essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies public history cultural history art history and memory. | U. S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation Never Neutral

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Exploring Extended Realities Metaphysical Psychological and Ethical Challenges

Exploring Extended Realities Metaphysical Psychological and Ethical Challenges

This volume highlights interdisciplinary research on the ethical metaphysical and experimental dimensions of extended reality technologies including virtual and augmented realities. It explores themes connected to the nature of virtual objects the value of virtual experiences and relationships experimental ethics moral psychology in the metaverse and game/simulation design. Extended reality (XR) refers to a family of technologies aiming to augment (AR) or virtually replace (VR) human experience. The chapters in this volume represent cutting-edge research on XR experiences from a wide range of approaches including philosophy psychology Africana studies and cognitive sciences. They are organized around three guiding questions. Part 1 “What is Extended Reality?” contains a series of chapters examining metaphysical questions about virtual objects actions and worlds. Part 2 “Is There an Ethics for Extended Realities?” includes chapters that address ethical questions that arise within XR experiences. Finally Part 3 “What Can We Do with Extended Realities?” features chapters from a diverse group of social scientists on the potential uses of XR as an investigative and educational tool including its strengths and pitfalls. Exploring Extended Realities will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of technology metaphysics moral psychology applied ethics and game studies. | Exploring Extended Realities Metaphysical Psychological and Ethical Challenges

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Communication and the First World War

Communication and the First World War

Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge this volume fills the gap in the market including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume includes chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject. | Communication and the First World War

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Neutrality in International Law From the Sixteenth Century to 1945

Neutrality in International Law From the Sixteenth Century to 1945

Neutrality is a legal relationship between a belligerent State and a State not participating in a war namely a neutral State. The law of neutrality is a body of rules and principles that regulates the legal relations of neutrality. The law of neutrality obliges neutral States to treat all belligerent States impartially and to abstain from providing military and other assistance to belligerents. The law of neutrality is a branch of international law that developed in the nineteenth century when international law allowed unlimited freedom of sovereign States to resort to war. Thus there has been much debate as to whether such a branch of law remains valid in modern international law which generally prohibits war and the use of force by States. While there has been much debate regarding the current status of neutrality in modern international law there is a general agreement among scholars as to the basic features of the traditional law of neutrality. Wani challenges the conventional understanding of the traditional neutrality by re-examining the historical development of the law of neutrality from the sixteenth century to 1945. The modification of the conventional understanding will provide a fundamentally new framework for discussing the current status of neutrality in modern international law. | Neutrality in International Law From the Sixteenth Century to 1945

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Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

This book sheds new light on the foreign policies roles and positions of neutral states and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the global Cold War. The volume places the neutral states and the NAM in the context of the Cold War and demonstrates the links between the East the West and the so-called Third World. In doing so this collection provides readers an alternative way of exploring the evolution and impact of the Cold War on North-South connections that challenges traditional notions of the post-1945 history of international relations. The various contributions are framed against the backdrop of the evolution of the Cold War international system and the decolonization process in the Southern hemisphere. By juxtaposing the policies of European neutrals and countries of the NAM this book offers new perspectives on the evolution of the Cold War. With the links between these two groups of countries receiving very little attention in Cold War scholarship the volume thus offers a window into a hitherto neglected perspective on the Cold War. Via a series of case studies the chapters here present new viewpoints on the evolution of the global Cold War through the exploration of the ensuing internal and (mainly) external policy choices of these nations. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies international history foreign policy security studies and IR in general. | Neutrality and Neutralism in the Global Cold War Between or Within the Blocs?

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Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details introduces the concepts principles and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals research analysis systems details and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient carbon-neutral healthy and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer moisture management performance targets and climatic zones. Illustrated with more than 375 color images the book is a visual catalog of construction details materials and systems drawn from projects contributed from forty firms. Fourteen in-depth case studies demonstrate the most energy-efficient systems for foundations walls floors roofs windows doors and more. | Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

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Liberal Neutrality

Liberal Neutrality

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions. This not only identifies what neutrality involves logically but also exposes the practical difficulties that may be encountered in pursuing it. In some cases such close examination shows that neutrality is not desirable and in others that it is attainable only within certain limits. Although neutrality has become a fashionable term in political theory this is the only volume to subject the idea to systematic scrutiny. It will be useful not only to specialists in diverse disciplines – political scientists philosophers sociologists lawyers and educationalists.

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Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax

Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax

Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax presents a theory-neutral comprehensive analysis of Korean morphosyntax for advanced students and scholars of Korean language and linguistics. This book focuses on the morphosyntactic status of particles in Korean and highlights how this understanding allows for a proper analysis of sentences. As the significance of clitics in Korean has not been highlighted by previous works in such depth this book offers the first comprehensive study of this aspect of the Korean language. The new observations offered here will allow readers to correctly identify the basic units of syntax and to properly analyze sentences in Korean. This book will be of interest to graduates and scholars interested in Korean linguistics and morphosyntax.

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Exhibiting Craft and Design Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930–Present

Exhibiting Craft and Design Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930–Present

Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930–present investigates the ways that craft and design objects were collected displayed and interpreted throughout the second half of the twentieth century and in recent years. The case studies discussed in this volume explain the notion the neutral display space had worked with challenged distorted or assisted in conveying the ideas of the exhibitions in question. In various ways the essays included in this volume analyse and investigate strategies to facilitate interaction amongst craft and design objects their audiences exhibiting bodies and the makers. Using both historical examples from the middle of the twentieth century and contemporary trends the authors create a dialogue that investigates the different uses of and challenges to the White Cube paradigm of space organization. | Exhibiting Craft and Design Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930–Present

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National Perspectives on the Global Second World War

National Perspectives on the Global Second World War

This collection of essays written by authors of different nationalities explores the experiences of the countries that were not numbered among the Second World War’s major belligerents including colonies 'lesser' powers and neutral nation states. The story of the war is often dominated by the experiences actions and historical narratives of the major belligerent powers. By focusing on the war history of ten diverse countries this analysis of the conflict’s global manifestations facilitates greater empathy with the experience of polities and societies dragged into regional and international conflicts. The volume offers valuable insights on the war’s place in national culture and collective memory. National Perspectives on the Global Second World War is an essential contribution to the study of the Second World War and will be of particular interest to scholars of imperial and colonial history military history and global history.

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Sustainaspeak A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms

Sustainaspeak A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms

Architecture 2030; BUG; Biophilic Design; BIPV; Circular Economy; LEED; Passive Design; Solar Chimney; Systems Thinking; WELL; Xeriscaping. What does it all mean? The complex and evolving language used in the sustainable design community can be very challenging particularly to those new to environmentally friendly and resource-efficient design strategies that are needed today. Definitions of over two hundred terms with further sources. Clearly cross-referenced with Sustainaspeak Theoryspeak and Archispeak terms. Illustrated throughout with sustainable award-winning buildings by e. g. Behnisch Brooks + Scarpa EHDD KieranTimberlake Lake|Flato Leddy Mahtum Stacy SmithGroup Perkins+Will ZGF VMDO and McDonough + Partners. Sustainaspeak: A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms provides a current guide to the sustainable design strategies terms and practices needed for the next generation of designers architects students and community leaders to design a carbon-neutral world for future generations. | Sustainaspeak A Guide to Sustainable Design Terms

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Ideology and Conference Interpreting A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China

Ideology and Conference Interpreting A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China

Gao uses the case of conference interpreting at the Summer Davos Forum in China to systematically reveal the ways in which ideology and linguistic ‘re-engineering’ can lead to discourse reconstruction. Translation and interpreting can never be wholly neutral practices in ‘multi-voiced’ transnational communication. Gao employs an innovative methodological synthesis to examine in depth a range of elements surrounding interpreters’ ideological positioning. These include analysing the appraisal patterns of the source and target texts identifying ‘us’-and-‘them’ discourse structures investigating interpreters’ cognitions and examining the crossmodal means by which interpreters render paralanguage. Collectively they bridge the gap between socio-political and ideological concerns on the one hand and practical questions of discourse reconstruction in cross-language/ cultural events on the other offering a panoramic perspective. An invaluable read for scholars in translation and interpreting studies particularly those with an interest in political discourse or the international relations context. | Ideology and Conference Interpreting A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China

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Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden militarily or economically. Nevertheless Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality. | Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

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Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

Practical Neurocounseling demonstrates the importance of considering brain health in counseling showing mental health professionals how to understand and assess the functioning of different parts of the brain without sophisticated software or intensive training. Chapters map out individual brain areas and give tips and guidance that therapists can use to tailor their approaches to meet specific cognitive emotional and behavioral needs. The interventions provided in each chapter are gender and culturally neutral with easy-to-follow directions for application. LORETA brain maps for each of the 19 brain sites help identify brain locations to brain function and areas of dysregulation and corresponding step-by-step interventions can be used to regulate sites and behaviors. More than just a collection of techniques Practical Neurocounseling is a valuable guide for clinicians interested in the relationship between brain activity and behavior. It’s also an ideal book for professors and students in any neurocounseling course and for clinicians working in talk therapy. | Practical Neurocounseling Connecting Brain Functions to Real Therapy Interventions

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers the volume covers a wide array of themes ranging from cultural to economic issues energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War this book will be instrumental for students of history international relations and political science. | Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe The Influence of Smaller Powers

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School-Based Family Counseling An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide

School-Based Family Counseling An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide

Written by experts in the field School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner’s Guide focuses on how to make integrated School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) interventions with a focus on integrating schools and family interventions in an explicit step-by-step manner. Departing from the general language used in most texts to discuss a technique this guide’s concrete yet user-friendly chapters are structured using the SBFC meta-model as an organizing framework covering background information procedure evidence-based support multicultural counseling considerations challenges and solutions and resources. Written in discipline-neutral language this text benefits a wide variety of mental health professionals looking to implement SBFC in their work with children such as school counselors and social workers school psychologists family therapists and psychiatrists. The book is accompanied by online video resources with lectures and simulations illustrating how to implement specific SBFC interventions. A decision tree is included to guide intervention. | School-Based Family Counseling An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide

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Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see US as US and China as China to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi’s The Art of War and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code beyond the standard clichés about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis’ perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston’s cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese western-educated and politically neutral understanding of China as China. An essential primer for academics practitioners and students of international relations diplomacy and Chinese culture. | Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations Breaking the Gridlock and Co-creating Our Future

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Liberalism and Naval Strategy Ideology Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica

Liberalism and Naval Strategy Ideology Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was linked to commercial interest and the devotion of the middle classes to peaceful commerce and their suspicion of force as government policy helped to inform critical choices. The traditional British naval strategy of the mercantilist era persisted into the early nineteenth century when the Royal Navy’s policing of the seas against piracy and the slave trade antagonized trade rivals particularly America. By the 1850s Britain granted immunity to neutral shipping – after much debate with some of the century’s leading thinkers including Mill and Marx taking prominent parts in the naval controversies. This book examines these events as well as the writings of contemporary naval strategists including the Colomb brothers. It also discusses the strategic posture of the Admiralty and its opponents before and during the war against Germany in 1914. | Liberalism and Naval Strategy Ideology Interest and Sea Power During the Pax Britannica

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The Milne Papers Volume III: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War 1862–1864

The Milne Papers Volume III: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War 1862–1864

This collection covers the period February 1862-March 1864 which constituted the final two years and one month that Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne commanded the Royal Navy’s North America and West India Station. Its chief focus is upon Anglo-American relations in the midst of the American Civil War. Whilst the most high-profile cause of tension between the two countries — the Trent Affair — had been resolved in Britain’s favour by January 1862 numerous sources of discord remained. Most turned on American efforts to blockade the so-called Confederacy efforts that often ran afoul of international law not to mention British amour-propre. As commander of British naval forces in the theatre Milne’s decisions and actions could and did have a major impact on the state of affairs between his government and that of the US. While noting in one private exchange with the British ambassador to Washington Richard Lord Lyons that he had been enjoined to abstain from any act likely to involve Great Britain in hostilities with the United States Milne added ominously yet I am also instructed to guard our Commerce from all illegal interference and it is plain from his correspondence that both he and the British government were prepared to use force in that undertaking. Thus between apparently high-handed behaviour by the US Navy and Milne’s and the Palmerston government’s resolve not to be pushed beyond a certain point the ingredients for a major confrontation between the two countries existed. Yet most of Milne’s efforts were directed toward preventing such a confrontation from occurring. In this endeavour he was joined by Lyons and by the British government. No vital British interest was at stake in the conflict raging between North and South and thus the nation was unlikely to become directly involved in it unless provoked by rash US actions. Yet there was no shortage of such provocations: the seizure of British merchant vessels bound from one neutral port to another detaining such ships without first conducting a search of their cargo for evidence of contraband of war the de facto blockade of British colonial ports apparent violations of British territorial waters the seizure of British merchantmen off the neutral port of Matamoros Mexico and the use of neutral ports as bases of operations by US warships among them. In responding to these and other sources of dispute between the US and Britain Milne proved adept at pouring oil on troubled waters so much so that in a late 1863 letter to Foreign Secretary Lord Russell Lyons lamented his impending departure from the station: I am very much grieved at his leaving…. No change of admirals could be for the better. This collection centres upon Milne’s private correspondence especially that between him and Lyons First Lord of the Admiralty the Duke of Somerset and First Naval Lord Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Grey. It also includes private letters to and from many of Milne’s other professional correspondents and important official correspondence with the Admiralty. | The Milne Papers Volume III: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War 1862–1864

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