Britain's war at sea, 1914-1918 : the war they thought and the war they fought / edited by Greg Kennedy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The British strategic assessment of the United States as a maritime power: 1900-1917 / Greg Kennedy -- "The work of the F.O. is nauseous in war time--a mess of questions of contraband & kindred subjects that don't exist in time of peace and are a disagreeable brood spawned by war": the Foreign Office and maritime war, 1914-15 / Keith Neilson -- "Allah is great and the NOT is his prophet": sea power, diplomacy and economic warfare: the case of the Netherlands, 1900-1918 / T.G. Otte -- Solvitur ambulando: the Admiralty Administration reacts to war, 1914-1918 / C.I. Hamilton -- Pragmatic hegemony and British economic warfare, 1900-1918: preparations and practice / John Ferris -- "In the shadow of the Alabama": Royal Navy appreciations of the role of armed merchant cruisers, 1900-1918 / Stephen Cobb -- How it worked: understanding the interaction of some environmental and technological realities of naval operations in the opening years of the First World War, 1914-1916 / James Goldrick -- The legacy of Jutland: expectation, reality and learning from the experience of battle in the Royal Navy, 1913-39 / Joseph Moretz -- "The sea is all one": the dominion perspective, 1909-1914 / David Stevens -- Royal Navy concepts of air power in the maritime environment 1900-1918 / David Jordan -- Not in quiet EngLish fields: the Royal Navy and combined operations / Joseph Moretz.