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The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783

"Mahan uses some detail and technical language to demonstrate particular naval engagements from 1660-1783, but apart from being just a lecturer on naval warfare and an analyst on tactics, he demonstrates how the use of the general navies, or the strategy of using a strong navy to protect the fleet of an aggressive merchant marine, is the single most important root cause of advancing economic and therefore military prosperity in any nation. Using Great Britain as his main example, he also details the Dutch fleets to demonstrate their reason for becoming a European superpower in their own right. Later he identifies the presence of the French navy, apart from any material success in its engagements, as one of the determining reasons why America had a chance to win its independence. Finally, as he hints of the supreme commercial and military importance of the proposed (Panama) canal, against the declining state of the American navy and the paltry condition of its merchant fleet, he urges that Americas prosperity if not survival depends on the powerful revival of its sea power."--Barnes & Nobel.

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  • "Influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"
  • "Influence of seapower upon history"
  • "Influence of seapower upon history"@en
  • "Influence of sea power on history, 1660-1783"
  • "Theory of sea power"
  • "Influence of sea power upon history"

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  • ""Mahan uses some detail and technical language to demonstrate particular naval engagements from 1660-1783, but apart from being just a lecturer on naval warfare and an analyst on tactics, he demonstrates how the use of the general navies, or the strategy of using a strong navy to protect the fleet of an aggressive merchant marine, is the single most important root cause of advancing economic and therefore military prosperity in any nation. Using Great Britain as his main example, he also details the Dutch fleets to demonstrate their reason for becoming a European superpower in their own right. Later he identifies the presence of the French navy, apart from any material success in its engagements, as one of the determining reasons why America had a chance to win its independence. Finally, as he hints of the supreme commercial and military importance of the proposed (Panama) canal, against the declining state of the American navy and the paltry condition of its merchant fleet, he urges that Americas prosperity if not survival depends on the powerful revival of its sea power."--Barnes & Nobel."@en
  • "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 - The Original Classic Edition."@en
  • "Details the significance of sea power in determining the wealth and strength of nations during these two centuries. Classic work first published in 1840 by the first president of the U.S. Naval Academy."@en
  • "Though technological advances over the last century have revolutionized warfare, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 remains a classic text on the history, strategy, and comprehension of commercial and military command of the high seas. The first president of the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan demonstrates through historical examples that the rise and fall of sea power and the wealth of nations have always been linked with commercial and military command of the sea. Mahan describes successful naval strategies employed in the past--from Greek and Roman times through the Napoleonic Wars--with an intense focus on England's rise as a sea power in the eighteenth century. This book provides not only an overview of naval tactics but also a lucid exposition of geographic, economic, and social factors governing the maintenance of sea power. -- This description applies to the Hardcover edition."@en
  • "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. This is even more true of particular occasions than of the general tendency of sea power. It is easy to say in a general way, that the use and control of the sea is and has been a great factor in the history of the world; it is more troublesome to seek out and show its exact bearing at a particular juncture. Yet, unless this be done, the acknowledgment of general importance remains vague and unsubstantial; not resting, as it should, upon a collection of special instances in which the precise effect has been made clear, by an analysis of the conditions at the given moments. -- from Preface (p. [iii])."@en
  • "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. This is even more true of particular occasions than of the general tendency of sea power. It is easy to say in a general way, that the use and control of the sea is and has been a great factor in the history of the world; it is more troublesome to seek out and show its exact bearing at a particular juncture. Yet, unless this be done, the acknowledgment of general importance remains vague and unsubstantial; not resting, as it should, upon a collection of special instances in which the precise effect has been made clear, by an analysis of the conditions at the given moments. -- from Preface (p. [iii])."
  • "Though technological advances over the last century have revolutionized warfare, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 remains a classic text on the history, strategy, and comprehension of commercial and military command of the high seas. The first president of the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan demonstrates through historical examples that the rise and fall of sea power and the wealth of nations have always been linked with commercial and military command of the sea. Mahan describes successful naval strategies employed in the past--from Greek and Roman times through the Napoleonic Wars--with an intense focus on England's rise as a sea power in the eighteenth century. This book provides not only an overview of naval tactics but also a lucid exposition of geographic, economic, and social factors governing the maintenance of sea power."
  • "Though technological advances over the last century have revolutionized warfare, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 remains a classic text on the history, strategy, and comprehension of commercial and military command of the high seas. The first president of the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan demonstrates through historical examples that the rise and fall of sea power and the wealth of nations have always been linked with commercial and military command of the sea. Mahan describes successful naval strategies employed in the past--from Greek and Roman times through the Napoleonic Wars--with an intense focus on England's rise as a sea power in the eighteenth century. This book provides not only an overview of naval tactics but also a lucid exposition of geographic, economic, and social factors governing the maintenance of sea power."@en
  • "Details the significance of sea power in determining the wealth and strength of nations during these two centuries."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Naval history"@en
  • "Naval history"
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  • "海权论 : 缩译全彩插图本"
  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783"@en
  • "海权论 = The influence of sea power upon history"
  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, etc"@en
  • "The influence of sea power upon history. 1660-1783"
  • "The influence of seapower upon history 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of seapower upon history, 1660-1783"@en
  • "Influence de la puissance maritime dans l'histoire : 1660-1783"
  • "The influence of sea power upon history : 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of sea power upon history : 1660-1783"
  • "Influencia del poder en la historia 1660-1783"
  • "The Influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783"
  • "The Influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783"@en
  • "The Influence of Sea power upon history 1660-1783"
  • "The influence of sea power upon history, 1660 - 1783"
  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783"
  • "The influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783"
  • "The Influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783, by captain A. T. Mahan"
  • "Influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783"@sv
  • "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 - The Original Classic Edition"@en
  • "Hai quan lun"
  • "The influence of sea Power upon history, 1660-1783"
  • "The influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783. [With maps and plans of naval battles.]"@en
  • "Haiquan lun = The influence of sea power upon history"
  • "Influence of sea power upon history. 1660-1783. [with maps and plans.]"
  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783"
  • "Influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of sea power upon history 1660 - 1783"
  • "The influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783 : [with a new introduction]"
  • "The Influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"@en
  • "The Influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"
  • "Influencia del poder naval en la historia : 1660-1783"
  • "Influencia del poder naval en la historia : 1660-1783"@es
  • "The influence of sea power upon history : 1660 - 1783"
  • "海权论"
  • "Influence de la puissance maritime dans l'histoire, 1660-1783"
  • "Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of sea Power upon history 1660-1783"
  • "Hai quan lun : Suo yi quan cai cha tu ben"
  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History. 1660-1783. [With maps and plans.]"@en
  • "Influencia del poder naval en la historia, 1660-1783"
  • "Influencia del poder naval en la historia, 1660-1783"@es
  • "The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"@en
  • "The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783"
  • "Influence of sea power upon history 1660-1783 tenth edition"@en
  • "Influence de la puissance maritime dans l'histoire, 1660-1783. Traduit par E. Boisse"

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