Publishers rejected Alex Clarke's carrier manuscript because it did not fit the American- and Japanese-centered literature already reaching the market. His interpretation argued that Britain had developed another viable approach to carrier war and that other navies moved toward greater protection as the conflict continued. Commercial expectations therefore influenced which operational model seemed normal to general readers. Self-publishing became a route for putting narrower class studies into circulation when conventional publishers would not take them. Publication structures can reinforce a historiographic center even when archives support a broader story.
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Publishing bias and carrier historiography
A British-carrier study struggled with publishers because it challenged a market already organized around American and Japanese carrier warfare.