A Brief History of Cruisers, Witnesses of the Colonial Imperialism

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.526How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Colonialism, Imperialism, Naval History, Military History, Cruisers

Abstract

This article discusses the history of cruisers as a category of warships by examining its relations with the Colonial Empires. The first part of this article discussed the initial definition of cruisers under the 1878 system of classification; the second part discussed the changes added to the cruiser concept during the Wars and under the treaties. The end discussed the end of cruiser and how this change of classification system is linked with the fall of maritime Empires during the Cold War, when they were no longer defensible with cruiser ships. The article proposed a different perspective to view warships as a symbol of the developments of Imperialism and Colonialism, hopefully to encourage a further discussion between traditional colonial studies and military history study.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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