Navy, are mentioned only briefly, while the significance of the agreement struck between Lord Robert Cecil and Edward Mandell House over the future naval balance of power is underappreciated. Nevertheless, this work is not concerned purely with matters of high policy, and Still’s lens of analysis moves swiftly between wider questions of American foreign policy and explorations of the activities and interactions of American naval officers across Europe. Subsequent chapters centre on three main issues. The first is demobilization, and Still explains the enormous logistical effort of transporting the American Expeditionary Force to the United States, extricating the USN from its wartime shore facilities, and settling debts with the Allies. Another chapter details the attempt to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage, the USN’s most dangerous task in this period. Two officers and nine enlisted personnel were lost in an operation that destroyed only around 40 per cent of the mines. Still also devotes considerable attention to the navy’s role in supporting American humanitarian endeavours and business interests in Europe. The navy was crucial to the work of the American Relief Administration, headed by Herbert Hoover, as it delivered supplies to central and eastern Europe. American warships assisted in a variety of ways, with the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral William Shepherd Benson, even offering to escort American ships carrying food through the Allied blockade. The USN was also directly involved in the evacuation of refugees from Smyrna in 1922. Yet Still reminds readers that economic selfinterest remained a powerful driver in the development of some of these deployments, with the USN helping to advance American business interests in Europe – although it is not always clear in the analysis the extent to which this outweighed humanitarian concerns. Still’s work is underpinned by a considerable base of primary source research in American and British archives, reflecting the scope of this book. In turn, this will prove an informative read to those unfamiliar with the USN’s continued role in European waters after the conclusion of the First World War. Moreover, Victory Without Peace is a notable study in the utility of navies in peacetime more generally, and the continued importance of sea power in international relations in this period, regardless of debates elsewhere over its apparently waning effectiveness in the early twentieth century.

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伊芙琳·韦尔奇 (Evelyn Welch) 编辑，《塑造早期现代：欧洲的服饰、纺织品和创新》，1500–1800 年

海军，仅被简要提及，而罗伯特·塞西尔勋爵和爱德华·曼德尔豪斯之间就未来海军力量平衡达成的协议的重要性却没有得到充分重视。然而，这项工作并不纯粹涉及高级政策问题，斯蒂尔的分析镜头在美国外交政策的更广泛问题与美国海军军官在欧洲各地的活动和互动的探索之间迅速移动。随后的章节围绕三个主要问题展开。第一个是复员，斯蒂尔解释了将美国远征军运送到美国、将美国海军从战时的海岸设施中解救出来以及与盟国解决债务的巨大后勤工作。另一章详细介绍了清除北海矿坝的尝试，美国海军在这一时期最危险的任务。两名军官和九名士兵在一次行动中丧生，该行动仅摧毁了约 40% 的地雷。仍然相当关注海军在支持美国人道主义努力和欧洲商业利益方面的作用。海军对由赫伯特·胡佛 (Herbert Hoover) 领导的美国救济管理局 (American Relief Administration) 的工作至关重要，因为它向中欧和东欧运送物资。美国军舰以多种方式提供协助，海军作战部长威廉·谢泼德·本森海军上将甚至提出护送运送食物的美国船只通过盟军封锁。1922 年，美国海军还直接参与了从士麦那撤离难民的工作。然而，斯蒂尔提醒读者，经济利益仍然是其中一些部署发展的强大驱动力，美国海军帮助推进美国在欧洲的商业利益——尽管在分析中并不总是清楚这在多大程度上超过了人道主义担忧。斯蒂尔的工作以美国和英国档案中的大量原始资料研究为基础，反映了本书的范围。反过来，对于那些不熟悉美国海军在第一次世界大战结束后继续在欧洲水域发挥作用的人来说，这将是一本内容丰富的读物。此外，《没有和平的胜利》是对海军在和平时期更广泛的效用以及这一时期海权在国际关系中的持续重要性的一项值得注意的研究，