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Time and space provide the matrix for history, both for the events of the past and for how we remember and present them. British naval power is no exception. Here the crucial variable is time in the shape of periodisation. British naval power, and its capacity to support a maritime empire, and indeed to help constitute an empire to which naval strength was crucial, looks assured if the period in question is Victoria’s reign, which lasted from 1837 to 1901.
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Black, J. (2013). The Victorian Maritime Empire in Its Global Context. In: Taylor, M. (eds) The Victorian Empire and Britain’s Maritime World, 1837–1901. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312662_9
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