America, Sea Power, and the World

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John Wiley & Sons, Dec 21, 2015 - History - 416 pages
This survey of American naval history features original chapters from key scholars in the field that trace the relationship between the American Navy and the position of the United States on the global political stage over the past 250 years.
  • Places equal weight on the influence of major wartime campaigns and naval efforts to defend and expand America’s political and economic interests during times of peace
  • Includes an array of illustrations and 56 new maps, seamlessly integrated within each chapter
  • Each chapter features sidebars with biographical sketches of influential leaders and descriptions of weapons and technological developments of the era
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Sea Power and the Modern State System
1
Chapter 2 The American War for Independence at Sea
11
Chapter 3 Genesis of the US Navy 17851806
26
Chapter 4 The Naval War of 1812 and the Confirmation of Independence 18071815
42
Agent of a Commercial Empire 18151890
58
Chapter 6 Technological Revolution at Sea
74
Blockade and CounterBlockade
87
Chapter 8 The Civil War on Rivers and Coastal Waters
101
Chapter 15 Defense in the Pacific 19371943
210
Chapter 16 Offensive in the Pacific 19431944
225
Chapter 17 The Victory of Sea Power in the Pacific
242
Chapter 18 The Uneasy Transition 19451953
259
Chapter 19 Cold War Challenges 19531963
274
Chapter 20 The Test of Vietnam
289
Contraction Reform and Revival
305
Worldwide War on Terrorism 19902015
323

Chapter 9 The New Navy 18651895
116
Chapter 10 War with Spain and the Revolution in Naval Affairs 18951910
133
Chapter 11 Defending Imperial Interests in Asia and the Caribbean 18981941
149
Chapter 12 Naval Rivalry and World War I at Sea 19001920
163
The Navy in the Interwar Years
179
Chapter 14 World War II in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
193
Chapter 23 Quo Vadis?
339
Further Reading
355
Index
363
EULA
380
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James C. Bradford is professor of naval and early American history at Texas A&M University. A past president of the North American Society for Oceanic History, he held the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage at the U.S. Naval Academy, and was the recipient of the George H.W. Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Teaching and the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naval Historical Foundation. Bradford has published several books, including the International Encyclopedia of Military History (2015), Command Under Sail: Makers of the American Naval Tradition (2013), and A Companion to American Military History (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

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