The American Naval Heritage in Brief - Softcover

COLETTA, Paolo E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081910390X ISBN 13: 9780819103901

Publisher: University Press of America, 1978

Synopsis

Chapters: Concepts and definitions; Seaborne weapons systems and tactics: the European heritage; The Age of Expansion: ships, colonies, and wars; A century of wars, 1689-1763; Two American Declarations of Independence; The War of the American Revolution; A chip on the European war table, 1783-1815; The U. S. Navy at peace and war, 1815-1861; Naval power and the American Civil War, 1861-1865; The post-Civil War denouncement and the rise of a new navy, 1865-1898; The Spanish-American War; The U. S. Navy comes of age, 1898-1914; Naval power and World War I: Europe, 1914-1917; Naval disarmament and rearmament, 1918-1941; The coming of World War II; World War II in European waters; The U. S. Navy in World War II: Atlantic Theater; World War II in the Pacific. Part I; from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal; World War II in the Pacific. Part II: the campaign against Rabaul; World War II in the Pacific. Part III: the dual advance and the end of the Japanese Empire; The Cold War and American defense organization, 1945-1950; Korea and continued communist containment, 1950-1961; Kennedy, Johnson, and sea power in the Sixties; The challend of the Soviet Navy; Sea power for the 1980s; Bibliography; Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 081910390X
• ISBN 13: 9780819103901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 630