Introduction : maritime militarism in two modern nation-states
World power in a global age
Big-power confrontations over empire
Maritime force, threat, and war
War of battle fleets
Planning for victory
Commerce, law, and the limitation of war
Naval elites and the state
Manufacturing consent
A politics of social imperialism
Of sciences, sea power, and strategy
Between leadership and intraservice conflict
Conclusion : navalism and its trajectories.