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Diplomatic Ramifications of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1939-1941 - Hardcover
by Janet M. Manson (Author)
In its decision of 7 December 1941 to adopt a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare--the destruction of all vessels entering a designated war zone--the United States not only dramatically reversed its previous foreign policy position of defending freedom of the seas but in doing so adopted a policy that had been one of the chief provocations for U.S. entry into World War I against Germany. Janet M. Manson contends that this decision also proved to be a watershed in U.S. foreign policy because it provided the precedent and rationale for using advanced weapons technology against noncombatants. Incorporating previously unavailable historical materials that have only recently been released through U.S. archives and compiling much information available only in archives and libraries in West Germany, this groundbreaking study provides multinational perspectives based on multiarchival research.
Manson carefully considers the complex historical, political, economic, legal, and military rationale for the decision. Detailed examinations of the discourse on submarine warfare among various governmental departments and sub-departments provide not only a more accurate account of the decisionmaking process involved in these events but also reveal the crucial influence of World War I precedent on World War II practice: The U.S. relied heavily on German submarine practice in both world wars in reaching its decision to implement unrestricted submarine warfare. Manson argues that although U.S. and German systems of government and foreign policy objectives were completely different, a similar rationale prompted their adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare. Seven chapters range chronologically from Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare during World War I to the American decision to adopt that policy in 1941. The final chapter identifies the implications and consequences of the decisions. This is the only scholarly work to provide detailed examinations of the decisions and the decisionmaking process from German and American perspectives. It will be standard resource for scholars and other readers investigating naval history, diplomacy, warfare, and World War II history.Author Biography
JANET M. MANSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is now co-authoring an interdisciplinary book entitled Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury Ethics and the Proscription of War, from which an article is forthcoming in a collection of essays, Virginia Woolf: The Fiction, the Reality and the Myth of War. For work on her present volume, she received Fulbright-Hays and Jacob K. Javits Fellowships and a Bernath Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Thanks to the Fulbright Collaborative Research Program, she recently advanced her latest work as Visiting Scholar at the University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
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by Janet M. Manson (Author)
In its decision of 7 December 1941 to adopt a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare--the destruction of all vessels entering a designated war zone--the United States not only dramatically reversed its previous foreign policy position of defending freedom of the seas but in doing so adopted a policy that had been one of the chief provocations for U.S. entry into World War I against Germany. Janet M. Manson contends that this decision also proved to be a watershed in U.S. foreign policy because it provided the precedent and rationale for using advanced weapons technology against noncombatants. Incorporating previously unavailable historical materials that have only recently been released through U.S. archives and compiling much information available only in archives and libraries in West Germany, this groundbreaking study provides multinational perspectives based on multiarchival research.
Manson carefully considers the complex historical, political, economic, legal, and military rationale for the decision. Detailed examinations of the discourse on submarine warfare among various governmental departments and sub-departments provide not only a more accurate account of the decisionmaking process involved in these events but also reveal the crucial influence of World War I precedent on World War II practice: The U.S. relied heavily on German submarine practice in both world wars in reaching its decision to implement unrestricted submarine warfare. Manson argues that although U.S. and German systems of government and foreign policy objectives were completely different, a similar rationale prompted their adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare. Seven chapters range chronologically from Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare during World War I to the American decision to adopt that policy in 1941. The final chapter identifies the implications and consequences of the decisions. This is the only scholarly work to provide detailed examinations of the decisions and the decisionmaking process from German and American perspectives. It will be standard resource for scholars and other readers investigating naval history, diplomacy, warfare, and World War II history.Author Biography
JANET M. MANSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kansas State University. She is now co-authoring an interdisciplinary book entitled Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury Ethics and the Proscription of War, from which an article is forthcoming in a collection of essays, Virginia Woolf: The Fiction, the Reality and the Myth of War. For work on her present volume, she received Fulbright-Hays and Jacob K. Javits Fellowships and a Bernath Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Thanks to the Fulbright Collaborative Research Program, she recently advanced her latest work as Visiting Scholar at the University of London, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
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