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The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy

Book by Alastair Finlan; Frank Cass, 2004

Subjects:

Falkland Islands War, 1982--Naval Operations, British, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--20th Century, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--Falkland Islands War, 1982, Great Britain--Royal Navy--History--Persian Gulf War, 1991, Persian Gulf War, 1991--Naval Operations, British

Collections: History, Entire Library

Alastair Finlan is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He has also lectured at the American University in Cairo, Britannia Royal Navy College, Keele University and Plymouth University.
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Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia

Book by David Stevens, John Reeve; Allen & Unwin, 2005

Subjects:

Australia--Royal Australian Navy, Australia--Royal Australian Navy--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the Naval History Section...Introduction: the Navy and the birth...historians of the British Empire writing...role of the British Royal Navy in the first...volume A History of Australia-often...the Royal Navy at any stage in its long history.4 At various...watched by two British battleships...
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Dawn like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy

Book by Glenn Tucker; Bobbs-Merrill, 1963

Subjects:

United States--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805, United States--Navy--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805

Collections: History, Entire Library

...many actions by British representatives...notion of American history that Great Britain...Probably in all its history, the United States Navy never sank to...exploits in the history of the Navy. He carried the War of 1812 to the British coast and captured...
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The Confederate Navy in Europe

Book by Warren F. Spencer; University of Alabama Press, 1983

Subjects:

Confederate States Of America--Navy--History, Neutrality--France, Neutrality--Great Britain, United States--Foreign Relations--1861-1865, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval Operations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Confederate States of America. Navy--History. 3. United States--Foreign...4. British Neutrality Tightens...the procurement of a navy. British-Confederate relations...no variation upon a British navy gunboat; it would be...
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Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants

Book by K. Jack Bauer, Stephen S. Roberts; Greenwood Press, 1991

Subjects:

United States--Navy--History, United States--Navy--Lists Of Vessels, Warships--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

This authoritative register brings a wealth of detailed information about all the major combat ships in the U.S. Navy--from the sail frigates of the Revolution to today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

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The U.S. Navy and the Late Nineteenth-Century Steel Industry

Journal article by Kurt Hackemer; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995

Subjects:

Steel industry--Military policy, United States. Navy--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...which her British-built warships...state of the navy and found...the navys history. These new...in naval history. First, the navy initiated...look at the British experience...This Peoples Navy: The Making...Shining Sea: A History of the United...
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"Deserted His Majesty's Service": Military Runaways, the British-American Press, and the Problem of Desertion during the Seven Years' War

Journal article by Thomas Agostini; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

British history--Analysis, Communications industry--History, Communications industry--Influence, Mass media--History, Mass media--Influence, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of American History 78 (1991): 125...troops in the British Army. See Brumwell...Journal of Social History 39 (2005); 39-64...Variation in the British American Colonies...Eighteenth-Century British Army," The Journal of Military History 60 (1996), 445-470...
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American Naval Shipbuilding, 1890-1989

Journal article by William D. Walters Jr.; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000

Subjects:

Navy-yards and naval stations--History, Shipbuilding--History, United States. Navy--History

Collections: Entire Library

...nation in the history of the world...at government navy yards, and the...Differences between U.S. Navy Shipbuilding Costs...Philadelphia: A 300 Year History, edited by R...Department of the Navy, Naval Historical...Corporation: A History and Record. New...Robertson. 1979. British Shipbuilding...
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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

...story, drawing on the British Navys conversion...nineteenth-century Royal Navy was unready for war...What he wanted was a navy trained to use the...providing it. He wanted British gunners trained to...of the peacetime navy. But Scott was not...retired Admiral and British naval historian Sir...
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Resisting Toxic Militarism: Vieques versus the U.S. Navy

Journal article by Deborah Berman Santana; Social Justice, 2002

Subjects:

Armed Forces--International aspects, Armed Forces--Social aspects, Big business--Environmental aspects, Big business--International aspects, Big business--Political aspects, Big business--Social aspects, Capitalism--Influence, Capitalism--International aspects, Energy consumption, Environmentalists, Ethnic groups, International relations--Military aspects, International relations--Political aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Pollution, Toxins--Management, United States. Department of Defense, United States. Navy, United States--Foreign relations, United States--Military policy, United States--Political aspects, United States--Social policy, Vieques Island

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...Caribbean pre-Columbian history, the military occupation...before 1898, the U.S. Navy had been interested in...giant base to shelter the British fleet plunged Vieques...became clear that the British Navy would not need the shelter...

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Mr Guy's Hospital and the Caribbean: Jane Bowden-Dan Explores Medical Links between the Caribbean and London That Throw Important Light on the Position of Blacks in Eighteenth-Century British Society

Magazine article by Jane Bowden-Dan; History Today, Vol. 56, June 2006

Subjects:

Blacks--History, British history, Caribbean Islands--History, Health care industry--Management, United Kingdom--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...William Maitlands History of London...colony of the British Caribbean was...the British navy. Most of the...eighteenth-century British society. FOR...Early Black History of Greenwich...demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies...
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An Empire like No Other: The British Experience Was Unique; America Will Write Its Own Chapters

Magazine article by John Derbyshire; National Review, Vol. 55, September 1, 2003

Subjects:

American imperialism--Forecasts and trends, American imperialism--History, British imperialism--History, Imperialism--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...1834, and much of the work of the Royal Navy through the middle decades of the 19th...other nations- including this one. The British colony of Sierra Leone was founded as...analogies. Some intensive reading on the history of the British Empire has left me with...
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Rule Britannia, Britannia Rule the Waves ... Navy League Map of the British Empire (1925)

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 77, January 2005

Subjects:

Maps (Geography)--Evaluation, Maps--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...League Map of the British Empire (1925...15/-. The history of the Navy League dates...of its naval history and dependence...auspices of the Navy League Boys...extent of the British Empire at the...evolution of the British Navy from an 11th-century...
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The British Seaborne Empire

Magazine article by John Mackenzie; History Today, Vol. 55, May 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The British Seaborne Empire (Book)--Book reviews, The Habit of Victory: The Story of the Royal Navy, 1545 to 1945 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...significance of the navy, not to mention the...twentieth century, the British have not entirely...Ocean in English History abounded. Given the...histories of the British Empire now extant...examining imperial history through the traditions...direction of the fighting navy. We learn very little...
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Strange Victory: The Original Gamble Was Born of Weakness. but Thanks to British Errors, Iran Has Got More Than It Was Hoping For

Magazine article by Rageh Omaar; New Statesman, Vol. 136, April 16, 2007

Subjects:

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Foreign policy, Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Military policy, British foreign relations--Analysis, Detention of persons--Military aspects, Detention--Military aspects, Iranian foreign relations--Analysis, Sailors--Military aspects, United Kingdom. Royal Navy--Military aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...motions, and who can blame them? Is the navy really going to risk a rerun of the crisis...unfairly bullied in its own backyard by British and American warships, UK and US troops...the defining moments of Iranian modern history is the overthrow of the democratically...

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How I Came to Know the Most Reviled Men in History; Sixty Years after the Start of the Nuremberg Trials,the Only Surviving Member of the British Prosecution Tram Relives the Bringing to Justice of the Azi Leaders Whose Human-Rights Abuses Led Him to Co-found Amnesty

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 23, 2005

Subjects:

Human rights, LEDs--Personal narratives, Light-emitting diodes--Personal narratives, Local transit--Personal narratives

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

...Reviled Men in History; Sixty Years after...Member of the British Prosecution Tram...before joining the Navy and then becoming...returned from the Navy and I was back...the head of the British team, David Maxwell...please. "The Navy was the making...Lawrence, the British judge and president...
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The U.S. Navy and Its Early Days

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 25, 2007

Subjects:

United States. Navy

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

...public affection. * * * \PA Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy, by Ian Toll (W.W. Norton, $27.95, 560 pages...Mediterranean, and as a counter to hundreds of British warships. President George Washington signed legislation...
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Calvin Klein and Burberry? Try the Royal Navy for Size

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 16, 2006

Subjects:

United Kingdom. Royal Navy

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

...Marines, offer a unique combination of history and heritage that will attract retailers...serving lieutenant commander said: The Navy isnt a cool brand. Audi is. If the Navy...back to the late 17th century when the British Navy was divided into three squadrons...
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Davis Passes Up Chance to Buy Navy Early in War

Newspaper article by James B. Edwards; The Washington Times, August 12, 2000

Subjects:

Davis, Jefferson

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

...India Co. surrendered its control of British India to the Crown in 1857, it had acquired...number of ships by the end of 1861 for a navy vastly superior to that of the United...opportunity, Jefferson Davis provided history with another and unusually interesting...
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My Father Served in the Navy When It Was Our Pride and Power and the Envy of the World. So Why Have We Thrown It All Away? as Our Once-Mighty Fleet Is Reduced to a Mere Coastal Defence Force, an Officer's Son Mourns the Passing of the Ships and Men Who Made This Country Great

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 14, 2007

Subjects:

Defense industry

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

...that once took British power to all the...worlds greatest navy will soon be no...with our national history so much that the...course it was British, not English...Services, the Navy united the peoples...as the entire Navy today. Heres a...aircraft-carrier was British - moored on the...

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Navy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...for 300 years. British naval power rested...establish a strong navy. In 1898, the United...Sea Power upon History (1890); B. Brodie...Warships of the British and Commonwealth...Howe, Compact History of the United States Navy (rev. ed. 1967...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...commercial interests, advanced by the British navy, brought on in 1839 the first...Elton, Modern Historians on British History, 1485 1945: A Critical Bibliography...1969 (1971) and P. Catterall, British History, 1945 1987: An Annotated Bibliography...
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Constitution , Ship

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...famous vessel in the history of the U.S. navy. Authorized by Congress...battle with the British vessel Guerriere...recaptured by the British). The Constitution...at the Portsmouth navy yard in 1855 and...stored at the Boston navy yard, and in 1927...
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American Revolution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...navies and a somewhat irregular national navy had been of less importance than Revolutionary...celebrated commanders in all U.S. naval history, but their exploits were isolated incidents...ironically, the same one defeated by the British under Admiral Rodney the next year in...
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O'Brian, Patrick

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...adventures in Lord Nelsons navy. These stirring, fast-paced...matters, nautical lore, natural history, and other details. By the 1980s OBrian was a British literary cult figure, sometimes...early 19th-century English navy (1

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