Title: In peace and war : interpretations of American naval history, 1775-1984 /
Authors: Hagan, Kenneth J.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1984
Subjects: United States. History.; United States History, Naval.
Abstract: "A series of monographs, essays, and papers that attempt to assess the navy as an institutional expression of the American experience."--Page [xiii].
Contents: The navies of the American revolution / James C. Bradford -- The search for a naval policy, 1783-1812 / G. Terry Sharrer -- The war of 1812 : what role for sea power? / Linda Maloney -- The Navy under the Board of Navy Commissioners, 1815-1842 / David F. Long -- An uncertain passage : the Bureaus run the Navy, 1842-1861 / Geoffrey S. Smith -- The Union Navy, 1861-65 / Dana M. Wegner -- The Confederate Navy, 1861-65 / Frank J. Merli -- Maintaining 'an American Navy, ' 1865-1889 / Lance C. Buhl -- The triumph of professional ideology : the U.S. Navy in the 1890s / Ronald Spector -- Defending the new empire, 1900-1914 / Richard W. Turk -- The American Navy in a world at war, 1914-1919 / David F. Trask -- The treaty Navy, 1919-37 / Philip T. Rosen -- The Navy plans for war, 1937-41 / John Major -- Fighting a global war, 1941-45 / Robert William Love, Jr. -- An era of transition, 1945-53 / Dean C. Allard -- The creation of the cold war Navy, 1953-62 / Floyd D. Kennedy, Jr. -- The erosion of American naval preeminence, 1962-78 / Lawrence J. Korb.