Rise of American Naval Power / / Margaret Sprout, Harold Hance Sprout.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Sprout, Harold Hance,; Sprout, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2339
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Authors' Introduction to the 1966 Edition --; Contents --; I. Chart and Compass --; II. Sea Power and American Independence (1776-1783) --; III. Independence Without Sea Power (1783-1789) --; IV. Federalist Policy: Naval Expansion and Cruiser Warfare (1789-1801) --; V. Jeffersonian Policy: Retrenchment and Passive Coast Defense (1801-1812) --; VI. Strategic Lessons of the War of 1812 (1812-1815) --; VII. The Neglected Lessons of 1812 (1815-1837) --; VIII. From Sails to Steam: The First Phase (1837-1845) --; IX. Naval Policy, Manifest Destiny, and Slave Politics (1845-1861) --; X. The Civil War: Strategic Lessons and Technical Progress (1861-1865) --; XI. Last Tears of the Old Navy (1865-1881) --; XII. Beginnings of the New Navy (1881-1889) --; XIII. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Sea Power and the New Manifest Destiny (1889-1897) --; XIV. Mahan Vindicated: The War with Spain (1897-1901) --; XV. Mahan Triumphant: The Naval Policy of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) --; XVI. Rooseveltian Policy Without Roosevelt (1909-1913) --; XVII. Politics and Policy on the Eve of the Great War (1913-1914) --; XVIII. Europe at War: Neutrality and Preparedness (1914-1917) --; XIX. America at War: Strategic Lessons and Political Consequences (1917-1918) --; XX. The Log Reviewed --; Motes on Methods and Materials --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400878833; 9783110426847; 9783110413489; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400878833
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Margaret Sprout, Harold Hance Sprout.

Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development from 1776 to 1918.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.