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Books on: "naval history" OR "naval warfare"

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Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500

Book by Susan Rose; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Europe--History, Naval, Naval Art And Science--History--To 1500, Naval History

Collections: History, Entire Library

How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and the extent to which the possibilities of sea power were understood and exploited.This fascinating ...
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How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and the extent to which the possibilities of sea power were understood and exploited.This fascinating account brings vividly to life the dangers and difficulties of medieval seafaring. In particular, it reveals the exploits of the Italian city states, England and France and examines:* why fighting occurred at sea* how battles were fought* the logistical back up needed to maintain a fleet* naval battles from the Mediterranean to the North Sea.
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Naval Warfare, 1815-1914

Book by Lawrence Sondhaus; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

Naval Art And Science--History--19th Century, Naval Art And Science--History--20th Century, Naval History, Modern--19th Century, Naval History, Modern--20th Century, Warships--History--19th Century, Warships--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steampower, armour, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at their affect on naval strategy and tactics.Part of the ever-growing and ...
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This book looks at the transition of wooden sailing fleets to the modern steel navy. It details the technological breakthroughs that brought about this change - steampower, armour, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at their affect on naval strategy and tactics.Part of the ever-growing and prestigious Warfare and History series, this book is a must for enthusiasts of military history.
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The Naval History of the World War: Offensive Operations, 1914-1915

Book by Thomas G. Frothingham; Harvard University Press, 1924

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918--Naval Operations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The great new disturbing factors in naval warfare had not been developed by the Germans...objectives of the Central Powers in naval warfare were necessarily limited by this conceded...submarines and mines upset former ideas of naval warfare, and also remembering the prewar reputation...
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Brown-, Green-, and Blue-Water Fleets: The Influence of Geography on Naval Warfare, 1861 to the Present

Book by Michael Lindberg, Daniel Todd; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Naval Art And Science--Effect Of Geography On--History--19th Century, Naval Art And Science--Effect Of Geography On--History--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

...be distilled from a study of naval history, and that it was to these...heart to other historians of naval warfare with visionary outlook, the...from being unprecedented in naval history, was out of all proportion to...
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Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1940-1945

Book by Charles W. Koburger; Praeger Publishers, 1993

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Mediterranean Sea, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, World War, 1939-1945--Naval Operations, British

Collections: History, Entire Library

The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it presents in a single place a coherent account of the tumultuous naval events that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945, during World War II. Second, it aims to demonstrate in an interesting fashion what naval warfare in the narrow seas is really like.

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Journal Articles on: "naval history" OR "naval warfare"

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Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500

Journal article by J. Boone Jr. Bartholomees; Parameters, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...important work on a neglected era of naval history. The years from 1000 to 1500...Thus, virtually every aspect of naval warfare and administration changed during...different times. Medieval Naval Warfare is refreshing in that it does...
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Valuing Innovation Where You Find It

Journal article; Parameters, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Naval art and science--History, Naval ordnance--History, Naval warfare--History, Ordnance, Naval--History, United Kingdom. Royal Navy--History

Collections: Entire Library

...seamanship, the nineteenth-century Royal Navy was unready for war. Responsibility for this lay at the top. Weapons and tactics in naval warfare were changing rapidly, but many senior officers preferred not to notice. They were assigned to ships, they served in them...
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Tidal Waves: The New Coastal History

Journal article by Isaac Land; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian Travellers and Settlers in Britain (Book)--Book reviews, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Book)--Book reviews, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (Book)--Book reviews, The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...fundamental issue. (9) In his Naval History of Britain, N.A.M. Rodger had...gets serious attention in the Naval History of Britain. (13) It is possible...The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 (New York...
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"The Precious Little Craft"

Journal article by J. Overton; Parameters, Vol. 32, 2002

Subjects:

Mexican War, 1846-1848--History, Naval history--United States, United States--History

Collections: Entire Library
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Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity

Journal article; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 28, 1998

Subjects:

Canada--Military policy, Naval history

Collections: Entire Library

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Magazine Articles on: "naval history" OR "naval warfare"

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Space and Naval Warfare Center MRAP Facility (Charleston, SC)

Magazine article by Robert M. Gates; U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, January 18, 2008

Subjects:

Soldiers--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

Space and Naval Warfare Center MRAP Facility (Charleston, SC). by Robert M. Gates Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates...
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Sir Robert Dudley: Duke of Northumberland: This Swashbuckling Chancer Lived Two Lives, the First English, the Second Italian. Raymond E. Role Chronicles the Chameleon Career Which Ranges from Elizabethan Privateer, Explorer and Courtier to Stuart Expatriate, Religious Renegade, Shipbuilder, Architect, Inventor, Engineer, Cartographer and Paterfamilias

Magazine article by Raymond E. Role; History Today, Vol. 53, March 2003

Subjects:

Dudley, Robert--History, Explorers--History, Naval history

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the Orders missions, patterning these so-called `caravans on the exploits of English privateers until the guerrilla-style naval warfare perfected by the Knights became indistinguishable from piracy. His aggressive prosecution of this dirty little war earned...
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Reinventing Maritime History

Magazine article by Margarette Lincoln, Nigel Ribgy; History Today, Vol. 51, July 2001

Subjects:

Maritime History Week--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Naval history--Analysis, Naval museums--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Clowes complained that the emergence of naval history as a serious subject for research had...aspects of the Navy, for it was mainly as naval history that the subject evolved as an academic...its definition encompassed more than naval history and that naval historians should unite...
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Ruling the Waves

Magazine article by Frank Mclynn; New Statesman, Vol. 133, October 11, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain (1649-1815) (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Ruling the Waves. by Frank McLynn The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain (1649-1815) N A M Rodger Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 907pp, pounds sterling30 If Richard Woodman is now the premier...
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Victory at Sea: Recent Movies ... Have Vididly Depicted the Face of Land Battle in the Second World War, but the Story of the American War Is Incomplete without the Sweep and Strategic Stakes of the War at Sea

Magazine article by David M. Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999

Subjects:

Air warfare, Japan--History, Japanese history, Naval warfare, World War II, 1939-1945

Collections: Entire Library

...at Surigao and Samar were the last of their kind. They closed an epoch of ship-to-ship gunnery duels, the standard form of naval warfare for centuries before 1944. No nation would ever again build a battleship; aircraft carriers had proved themselves the final...

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Newspaper Articles on: "naval history" OR "naval warfare"

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Maritime Commerce and Transport: River at the Centre of Wars from One Century to the Next; Tony McDonough Looks at Liverpool's Long Naval History

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 8, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Century to the Next; Tony McDonough Looks at Liverpools Long Naval History. Byline: Tony McDonough L IVERPOOL has played an...World War Two that Liverpool really cemented its place in naval history with its role in the Battle of the Atlantic (see panel...
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Commanding the SEAS; the Royal Navy's Rise to World Supremacy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 10, 2005

Subjects:

United Kingdom. Royal Navy

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...history of the Royal Navy. The author is professor of naval history at Britains Exeter University and he begins this amply...European history. +++++ THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN: A NAVAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN, VOLUME II, 1649-1815 By N.A.M. Rodger...
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Archive: Cook the Books and Other Naval Journals and Diaries; Documents from Our Naval Heroes Go on Display for the First Time, as Simon Baker Discovers

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 25, 2005

Subjects:

Cook, James

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...characters and reputations Andrew Lambert, professor of naval history at Kings College, London, said: These documents illuminate...were involved in one the most important battles in naval history has been launched. The Trafalgar Ancestors database...
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Weird and Wonderful; BRITAIN'S QUIRKIEST ATTRACTIONS

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 14, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to impress the neighbours with the next time they are chatting over the garden fence. PEASHOLM PARK NAVAL WARFARE IF naval history floats your boat, this bizarre tourist attraction is right up your channel. All summer long (weather permitting) the...
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Manila Bay Battle Put U.S. in Asia for Good

Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, May 1, 1998

Subjects:

Manila Bay

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...military but geopolitical. "Obviously, Manila Bay is an important event in U.S. history but not so important in global naval history," he contended. "The battle of Manila Bay largely decided which fleet would control Manila Bay, while the Japanese...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "naval history" OR "naval warfare"

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Torpedo , in Naval Warfare

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

TORPEDO , in naval warfare in naval warfare, a self-propelled submarine projectile loaded with explosives, used for the destruction of enemy ships. Although there were attempts at subsurface warfare in the 16th and 17th cent., the modern...
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Suffren De Saint-Tropez, Pierre AndrÉ De

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...SUFFREN DE SAINT-TROPEZ, PIERRE ANDRE DE pyer aNdra d sufren d saN-tropa , 1726 88, French admiral. He participated in naval warfare in the War of the Austrian Succession and in the Seven Years War. In 1779 he was sent with the comte d Estaing to aid the...
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Mahan, Alfred Thayer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1914, U.S. naval officer and historian, b. West Point, N.Y. A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on naval history and strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., of which he was president (1886 89, 1892 93). Out of his lectures grew...
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Brodie, Bernard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...book on nuclear strategy, and was a strategic theorist at the Rand Corporation (1951 66). Although his early work was on naval history, he later concentrated on the significance of airpower in the nuclear age. He advocated a policy of deterrence (see nuclear...
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Geneva Conventions

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...instrumental in the development of the International Committee of the Red Cross . Later conventions extended (1906) the first to naval warfare and covered (1929) the treatment of prisoners of war . As a result of World War II, particularly of the conduct of Germany...

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