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| | Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 - J. Charles Schencking |
 | | Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus—if not the overriding preoccupation—of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. |
 | | This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders expanded their political activities to secure appropriations commensurate with the creation of a world-class blue-water fleet. |
 | | The navy, as this book details, made waves at sea and on shore, and in doing so significantly altered the state, society, politics, and empire in prewar Japan. |
| www.sup.org /book.cgi?book_id=4977 (353 words) |
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