Title: Naval history :
Authors: United States Naval Academy History Symposium; Masterson, Daniel M.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Scholarly Resources,
Physical description: xv, 358 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Contents: Navies in the early age of sail. The harbor of Herod the Great at Caesarea Maritima: the expansion of Rome in the Eastern Mediterranean / Robert Lindley Vann -- New evidence for the study of warships and naval warfare in antiquity based on the discovery of the Athlit bronze ram / Elisha Linder -- Public opinion and the role of sea power in Athens, 404-332 B.C. / Josiah Ober -- Fourth-century Athenian citizen colonies in the Aegean: an aspect of naval/military policy / Jack Cargill -- Historiographic constraints in reconstructing the Battle of Artemision / K.R. Walters -- Possible Ptolemaic influence on the Carthaginian Navy in the First Punic War / Ellen E. Rice -- The logistics of the Anglo-Saxon invasions / Michael E. Jones -- Contingency planning and the defeat of the Spanish Armada / Ronald Pollitt -- New Perspectives on British sea power. British strategy during the First World War in the context of four centuries: blue-water versus continental commitment / Daniel A. Baugh -- The nature of mutiny in the British Navy in the eighteenth century / Arthur N. Gilbert -- The dreadnought revolution reconsidered / Karl Lautenschläger -- Naval technology, diplomacy, and intelligence. Give us a chance: shipbuilding on the Great Lakes during World War I / Richard J. Wright -- Navy shipbuilders "discover" welding / Robert H. Peebles -- The Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22 in Anglo-French relations / Donald S. Birn -- Arms limitation agreements and the evolution of weaponry: the case of the "treaty cruiser" / Ernest Andrade, Jr. -- Naval intelligence in peacetime: Britain's problems in assessing the German threat, 1933-39 / Wesley K. Wark -- The origins of the Office of Naval Research / Harvey M. Sapolsky -- Espionage and Allied shipping during World War II / Leslie B. Rout, Jr., and John F. Bratzel -- World War II naval and amphibious operations. The fleet between: Anglo-American diplomacy and Force X, 1940-43 / Calvin W. Hines -- The United States and the Caribbean, 1914-41 / Donald A. Yerxa -- Early carrier raids during World War II / Edwin T. Layton -- Assignment: British Pacific Fleet / Paul B. Kincade -- Medical aspects of amphibious operations involving U.S. Army forces during the war against Japan / Mary Ellen Condon -- Biographical naval studies and material history. Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers: mentor of the new Navy / Stephen D. Brown -- The papers of John Paul Jones / James C. Bradford -- Trends in the study of ship design / Dana M. Wegner -- Use of historical naval ships as museum settings / James W. Cheevers -- The dilemma of warship preservation / Philip M. Callaghan -- Two armed schooners from the War of 1812: the Hamilton-Scourge project / Barry Lord.
Notes: "Papers of the Sixth Naval History Symposium held at the U.S. Naval Academy on 29-30 September 1983"--Foreword.
Subject headings (LCSH): Naval art and science--History--Congresses.; Naval history--Congresses.