Navies Deterrence

By Nicholas Tracy

This book focuses on British defence policy in the period between theSeven Years' War and French intervention in the AmericanRevolution. It is a study of coercive diplomacy and of the influence ofdefence considerations in foreign policy, particularly as applied tothe naval relationship between Britain and Fance at the outbreak of theAmerican Revolution -- a subject of considerable significance inunderstanding how American independence was made possible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774802987
• ISBN13: 9780774802987
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher