Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-351) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part One -- The Changing Framework of International Rivalry, 1840-1914 -- Chapter 1: Industrialization, People's War, -- and the Limits to Land and Sea Power 11 -- The End of the Congress System, the -- Advent of Industrialized People's War, -- and Germany's "Semi-Hegemony," 1850-1871 13 -- Industrialization and the Effectiveness -- of Britain's Sea Power, 1840-1914 24 -- Competitive Modernization, Arms Races, -- and War, 1840-1914 39 -- The Naval Balance of Power, Maritime Law, -- and the Limits to Britain's Sea Power 57 -- Part Two -- Naval Strategy in an Industrializing World, 1865-1895 -- Chapter 2: Adapting History in Britain and France 84 -- Britain and Blue Water 85 -- France and the Jeune Ecole 96 -- Chapter 3: German Grand Strategy and the -- Prussian School of Naval Thought, 1871-1895 110 -- German Grand Strategy and the Navy 113 -- The Prussian School of Naval Thought -- The Prussian School, Operational Doctrine, -- and the Renewal of the Fleet -- Chapter 4: Navalism, Strategy, and History in -- Mahan's Thought and Influence -- Mahan's Elements of Sea Power- -- Strategic and Navalist -- Mahan's Imperialism -- The Basics of Mahan's Strategy -- Chapter 5: From the Prussian to the German -- School, 1891-1895: Operational Doctrine -- and the Ideology of Sea Power -- Mahan and German Navalism -- The Prussian School Meets Mahan -- A Decade of Intra-Service Rivalry -- Tirpitz and the Axioms of the Prussian School: -- The Memoranda of 1891-1892 -- The Honing of Prussian Naval Thought, 1892-1894: -- The Operational Doctrines of Dienstschrift IX -- The Ideology of Sea Power in Dienstschrift IX -- Part Three -- The Origins and Objectives of the Tirpitz Plan, 1895-1914 -- Chapter 6: From Dienstschrift IX to the Risk -- Theory, 1895-1900 -- The Acceptance of the High Command's -- Construction Program, 1895-1897 -- From Prusso-German Naval Defense to -- the "Fleet against England": The First -- and Second Navy Laws, 1897-1900 -- Chapter 7: The "Risk Fleet" and the German -- School of Naval Thought -- The "Final Objectives" of Construction Policy -- Numbers, Allies, and Position -- Strategic Options and Maritime Law under -- the Primacy of the Tirpitz Plan -- From Maltzahn to Wegener: The German -- School and Geopolitics -- Chapter 8: The Peculiarities of Wilhelmine -- Navalism -- Semiabsolutist Navalism -- Social Imperialism from Weber to -- the "Kehrites": The Historiographical -- Politics of the "Risk Fleet" -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Index.