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The gold standard in college-level American naval history texts, edited by the foremost scholar in the field
In the newly revised second edition of America, Sea Power and the World, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an extensive and authoritative survey of American naval history, the place of the United States in world affairs, and the role of that country's naval forces during peacetime and wartime.
Each chapter contains a comprehensive analysis of its subject as well as brief sidebars describing a key weapon or technological development of the era and a short biographical sketch of an influential leader or representative of the navy from that era. The book offers extensive illustration and maps and a throughgoing emphasis on naval policy, strategy, roles, and missions, with careful attention paid to naval operations. These factors given greater focus than the descriptions of battle tactics found in other texts.
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Perfect for undergraduate students taking courses on the naval history of the United States, America, Sea Power and the World, Second Edition will also earn a place in the libraries of members of the general public interested in naval and military history.
James C. Bradford is Professor Emeritus of Naval and Early American History at Texas A&M University. He is the editor of the International Encyclopedia of Military History, Command Under Sail: Makers of the American Naval Tradition, and A Companion to American Military History.
John F. Bradford is Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University. He retired from the US Navy with the rank of Commander. He is co-editor of Maritime Cooperation and Security in the Indo-Pacific Region: Essays in Honour of Sam Bateman and has authored dozens of articles on maritime security and naval affairs.
List of Contributors vii
List of Maps xiii
List of Figures xv
List of Vignettes xviii
Preface xx
Acknowledgments xxii
1. Sea Power and the Modern State System 1James C. Bradford
2. The American War for Independence at Sea 11Virginia W. Lunsford
3. Genesis of the US Navy, 1785-1806 25Joseph P. Slaughter
4. The Naval War of 1812 and the Confirmation of Independence, 1807-1815 41Gene Allen Smith
5. The Squadron Navy: Agent of a Commercial Empire, 1815-1890 57John H. Schroeder
6. Technological Revolution at Sea 73William M. McBride
7. The Civil War: Blockade and Counterblockade 86Craig L. Symonds
8. The Civil War on Rivers and Coastal Waters 101Wayne Hsieh
9. The New Navy, 1865-1895 117Frederick S. Harrod
10. War with Spain and the Revolution in Naval Affairs, 1895-1910 134James C. Rentfrow
11. Defending Imperial Interests in Asia and the Caribbean, 1898-1941 150Aaron B. O'Connell
12. Naval Rivalry and World War I at Sea, 1900-1920 165Jon K. Hendrickson
13. Finding Certainty in Uncertain Times: The Navy in the Interwar Years 182Craig C. Felker
14. World War II in the Atlantic 196Marcus O. Jones
15. Assault on Occupied Europe 211Stan Fisher
16. Defense in the Pacific, 1937-1943 230Davin O'Hora
17. Offensive in the Pacific, 1943-1944 245William F. Trimble
18. The Victory of Sea Power in the Pacific, 1944-1945 262Edward J. Marolda
19. The Uneasy Transition, 1945-1953 279Kenneth W. Estes
20. Cold War Challenges, 1953-1963 295Lori L. Bogle
21. Defense Unification and Joint Operations 311Scott Mobley
22. The Test of Vietnam 328Richard A. Ruth
23. Toward a more Diverse Navy 344Kristy N. Kamarck
24. Twilight of the Cold War: Contraction, New Strategies, and Revival 358Joseph T. Stanik
25. Contours of Conflict, 1990-2015 374Ernest Tucker
26. Steaming Back into a Multipolar World 392David F. Winkler
27. Quo Vadis? 409Mark R. Hagerott
Further Reading 427
Index 437
James C. Bradford, retired as Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Air War College and held the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage at the US Naval Academy. He edited The Papers of John Paul Jones (1986), The Atlas of American Military History (2003), the Companion to American Military History (2009), and The International Encyclopedia of Military History (2006). A naval and maritime historian, he served as president of the North American Society for Oceanic History and was an inaugural recipient of the Naval Historical Foundation's Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Virginia W. Lunsford, Associate Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, specializes in early-modern maritime history, especially the history of piracy and Age of Sail warfare. She holds a PhD from Harvard University, was a Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands, and is the author of Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands (2005). Her commentary about piracy has appeared in media such as Time, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, the Houston Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, and the VOA. She also has served as an interviewed expert on history programs for Netflix, National Geographic Channel, Smithsonian Channel, and the History Channel. Currently, she is writing a new book about piracy, completing a study about early-modern sailors, and engaged in research projects about women and piracy, the naval war of the Glorious Revolution, and the French role in the naval war of the American Revolution.
Joseph P. Slaughter, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Wesleyan University, received a bachelor of science from the US Naval Academy and a doctorate from the University of Maryland. Previously, he taught early American, naval, and world history at the Naval Academy for 11 years. In between tours as a C-2 Greyhound pilot and catapult and arresting gear officer, he wrote an MA thesis "A Navy in the New Republic" that examines the debates over the reestablishment of the Navy in the early national period. His award-winning post-doctorate research appears in journals such as Enterprise & Society and the Journal of the Early Republic.
Gene Allen Smith is Professor of History at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. During the 2013-2014 and 2022-2023 academic year he served as the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage at the US Naval Academy. He is the author or editor of numerous books, articles, and reviews on the War of 1812, naval and maritime history, and territorial expansion along the Gulf of Mexico, and his most recent book is In Harm's Way: A History of the American Military Experience (2019). Since 2002, he has served as the director of the Center for Texas Studies at Texas Christian University.
John H. Schroeder is Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He served as the Class of 1957 Distinguished Professor of American Naval Heritage at the US Naval Academy in 2010-2011. He is the author of numerous articles and books including The Shaping of a Maritime Empire: The Role of the US Navy, 1829-1861 (1985); biographies of Commodore Matthew C. Perry (2001) and Commodore John Rodgers (2006); and The Battle of Lake Champlain (2015). His biography of Perry won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize for American Naval History in 2002.
William M. McBride, Professor of History at the US Naval Academy, teaches courses in the history of technology, science, and engineering as well as naval and military history. He holds an MSc in aerospace and ocean engineering from Virginia Tech and a PhD in the history of science and technology from The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 (2000), Good Night Officially: The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor (1994), and numerous scholarly articles, and has edited a book on naval history. He is completing War, Science and Technology: A History for Cambridge University Press. Prior to coming to Annapolis, McBride was on the history faculty at James Madison University, where he was inaugural Edna T. Shaeffer Distinguished Humanist. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Associate of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
Craig L. Symonds, Professor Emeritus at the US Naval Academy, is the author of numerous works, including Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (2005), Lincoln and His Admirals (2008), The Civil War at Sea (2012), and World War II at Sea (2018). They have earned him the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History (2006), the Barondess Prize (2009), the Lincoln Prize (2009), the Abraham Lincoln Book Award (2010), and other awards. Symonds returned to the Naval Academy to hold the Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage from 2011 to 2012. In 2014, the Naval Historical Foundation awarded him the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award.
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh is an Associate Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. He also served as a State Department political officer in Iraq between July 2008 and June 2009. He is one of the co-authors (along with Williamson Murray) of A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2016) and the author of West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), along with numerous academic articles.
Frederick S. Harrod is a retired Professor of History at the US Naval Academy who received a BA from Carleton College and a PhD from Northwestern University. He is the author of Manning the New Navy: The Development of a Modern Naval Enlisted Force, 1899-1940 (1978) and several articles on naval history including "New Technology in the Old Navy: The United States Navy during the 1870s" (1993).
Dr. James C. "Chris" Rentfrow is the Director of the National Museum of the United States Navy in Washington, DC. He flew the EA-6B Prowler before being selected to participate in the Permanent Military Professor program. Dr. Rentfrow completed his PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park, under the supervision of Jon Tetsuro Sumida, then taught at the US Naval Academy until his retirement in 2019 after 30 years of naval service. His book, Home Squadron: The US Navy on the North Atlantic Station, was published in 2014.
Aaron B. O'Connell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas-Austin and Director of Research at the Clements Center for National Security. His first book, Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps, was published in 2012. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Slate.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is currently writing a history of the Global War on Terror.
Jon K. Hendrickson earned his PhD in military history from the Ohio State University in 2012 and was the first Class of 1957 Postdoctoral Fellow in Naval History at the US Naval Academy. The author of Crisis in the Mediterranean: Naval Competition and Great Power Politics in the Mediterranean, 1904-1914 (2014), he currently teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. I currently teach at the Air Command and Staff College.
Craig C. Felker joined the faculty of the History Department at the US Naval Academy in June 2004 and served as its chair from 2014 until 2016. Captain Felker's publications include Testing American Sea Power: US Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940 (2007), New Interpretations in Naval History, an edited collection of papers from the 2011 Naval History Symposium, and No Moment of Victory: The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, 2009-2011 (2021).
Marcus Jones is Professor of History at the US Naval Academy. He took his degrees from the Ohio State University and the...
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