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Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : W. M. James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107645554
This book, first published in 1948, presents a concise discussion regarding the role of naval power in the history of Britain.
Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459573631
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Naval history
ISBN : NYPL:33433008460911
Author : A. T. Mahan,Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446548271
Originally published in 1898. PREFACE: The definite object proposed in this work is an examination of the general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the effect of sea power upon the course of that history. Historians generally have been unfamiliar with the conditions of the sea, having as to it neither special interest nor special knowledge; and the profound determining influence of maritime strength upon great issues has consequently been overlooked. The period embraced is from 1660, when the sailingship era, with its distinctive features, had fairly begun, to 1783, the end of the American Revolution. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : William Milbourne James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:560979715
Author : Gerard Fiennes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Naval history
ISBN : NYPL:33433008460648
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Naval history
ISBN : CHI:16174408
Author : Arthur Jacob Marder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007004874958
Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248838
A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.
Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141983837
Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1905-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465547330
The present work concludes the series of "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," as originally framed in the conception of the author. In the previous volumes he has had the inspiring consciousness of regarding his subject as a positive and commanding element in the history of the world. In the War of 1812, also, the effect is real and dread enough; but to his own country, to the United States, as a matter of national experience, the lesson is rather that of the influence of a negative quantity upon national history. The phrase scarcely lends itself to use as a title; but it represents the truth which the author has endeavored to set forth, though recognizing clearly that the victories on Lake Erie and Lake Champlain do illustrate, in a distinguished manner, his principal thesis, the controlling influence upon events of naval power, even when transferred to an inland body of fresh water. The lesson there, however, was the same as in the larger fields of war heretofore treated. Not by rambling operations, or naval duels, are wars decided, but by force massed, and handled in skilful combination. It matters not that the particular force be small. The art of war is the same throughout; and may be illustrated as really, though less conspicuously, by a flotilla as by an armada; by a corporal's guard, or the three units of the Horatii, as by a host of a hundred thousand. The interest of the War of 1812, to Americans, has commonly been felt to lie in the brilliant evidence of high professional tone and efficiency reached by their navy, as shown by the single-ship actions, and by the two decisive victories achieved by little squadrons upon the lakes. Without in the least overlooking the permanent value of such examples and such traditions, to the nation, and to the military service which they illustrate, it nevertheless appears to the writer that the effect may be even harmful to the people at large, if it be permitted to conceal the deeply mortifying condition to which the country was reduced by parsimony in preparation, or to obscure the lessons thence to be drawn for practical application now. It is perhaps useless to quarrel with the tendency of mankind to turn its eyes from disagreeable subjects, and to dwell complacently upon those which minister to self-content. We mostly read the newspapers in which we find our views reflected, and dispense ourselves easily with the less pleasing occupation of seeing them roughly disputed; but a writer on a subject of national importance may not thus exempt himself from the unpleasant features of his task. The author has thought it also essential to precede his work by a somewhat full exposition of the train of causes, which through a long series of years led to the war. It may seem at first far-fetched to go back to 1651 for the origins of the War of 1812; but without such preliminary consideration it is impossible to understand, or to make due allowance for, the course of Great Britain. It will be found, however, that the treatment of the earlier period is brief, and only sufficient for a clear comprehension of the five years of intense international strain preceding the final rupture; years the full narrative of which is indispensable to appreciating the grounds and development of the quarrel,—to realize what they fought each other for.
Author : C. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230599239
This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the influence of Mahan, the role of the navy in peacetime, and the use of propaganda to influence the British public.
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Sea-power
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002645161
Author : Alfred Thayer Mahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Admirals
ISBN : UCAL:$B747280
