Sea Power and the Control of Trade

Charts the British government's changing perception of the utility of naval control of trade between 1854 and the late 1960s This collection of departmental files and treaties reviews the changing perceptions in the British government of the utility of naval control of trade over the period from the outbreak of the Russian or 'Crimean' war in 1854 to the United Nations mandated Beira patrol, established in 1966 to stop the flow of oil to Southern Rhodesia. The capacity of navies to influence wor