Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy

This article examines the way a group of colonies on the far reaches of British power – Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India, dealt with the imperatives of their own security in the early twentieth century. Each of these evolved into Dominion status and then to sovereign statehood (India lastly and most thoroughly) over the first half of the twentieth century, and their sovereignties evolved amidst a number of related and often countervailing problems of self-defence and cooperative security strategy within the British Empire. The article examines how security – the abstracted political goods of military force – worked alongside race in the greater Pacific to build colonial sovereignties before the First World War. Its first section examines the internal-domestic dimension of sovereignty and its need to secure territory through the issue of imperial naval subsidies. A number of colonies paid subsidies to Britain to support the Royal Navy and thus to contribute in financial terms to their strategic defense. These subsidies provoked increasing opposition after the turn of the twentieth century, and the article exlpores why colonial actors of various types thought financial subsidies threatened their sovereignties in important ways. The second section of the article examines the external-diplomatic dimension of sovereignty by looking at the way colonial actors responded to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. I argue that colonial actors deployed security as a logic that allowed them to pursue their own bids for sovereignty and autonomy, leverage racial discourses that shaped state-building projects, and ultimately to attempt to nudge the focus of the British Empire's grand strategy away from Europe and into Asia.

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The Devil and the Deep Blue Lake: How Natural Area Acquisition and Stewardship Helps Protect the Major Drinking Reservoir in Northwestern Arkansas

Natural Areas Journal ◽

10.3375/043.039.0106 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 78 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dustin T. Lynch ◽

C. Theo Witsell ◽

Bryan A. Rupar ◽

William C. Holimon ◽

Darrell W. Bowman

Keyword(s):

Natural Area ◽

Deep Blue ◽

Blue Lake ◽

The Devil

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Britain's Airship Program: Royal Navy vs. the Royal Air Force after World War I 1919-1930

AIAA Centennial of Naval Aviation Forum "100 Years of Achievement and Progress" ◽

10.2514/6.2011-7048 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Alex Spencer

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Air Force ◽

Royal Navy ◽

World War ◽

Royal Air Force

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02 / The energy expenditure of Royal Navy submariners

10.26226/morressier.5b1a467d3b823805c63bffc1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Frances Gunner

Keyword(s):

Energy Expenditure ◽

Royal Navy

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Tetraphenylbenzene-based AIEgens: the Horizontally Oriented Emitters for highly Efficient Non-doped Deep Blue OLEDs and Host for High-Performance Hybrid WOLEDs

10.26434/chemrxiv.11887026 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pengbo Han ◽

Zeng Xu ◽

Chengwei Lin ◽

Dongge Ma ◽

Anjun Qin ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

General Strategy ◽

Flat Panel Displays ◽

Light Emitting ◽

Horizontal Orientation ◽

Deep Blue ◽

Full Color ◽

High Emission ◽

White Oleds ◽

Low Efficiency

Deep blue organic-emitting fluorophores are crucial for application in white lighting and full color flat-panel displays but emitters with high color quality and efficiency are rare. Herein, novel deep blue AIE luminogens (AIEgens) with various donor units and an acceptor of cyano substituted tetraphenylbenzene (TPB) cores were developed and used to fabricate non-doped deep blue and hybrid white organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Benefiting from its high emission efficiency and high proportion of horizontally oriented dipoles in the film state, the non-doped deep blue device based on CN-TPB-TPA realized a maximum external quantum efficiency 7.27%, with a low efficiency roll-off and CIE coordinates of (0.15, 0.08). Moreover, efficient two-color hybrid warm white OLEDs (CIEx,y = 0.43, 0.45) were achieved using CN-TPB-TPA as the blue-emitting layer and phosphor doped host, which realized maximum current, power, external quantum efficiencies 58.0 cd A-1, 60.7 lm W-1 and 19.1%, respectively. This work provides a general strategy to achieve high performance, stable deep blue and hybrid white OLEDs by construction of AIEgens with excellent horizontal orientation

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