New interpretations in naval history
Subtitle: selected papers from the Fifteenth Naval History Symposium
By: edited by Maochun Yu.
Contributors: Yu, Maochun, 1962-
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781591149835
Subjects: Naval art and science -- History -- Congresses; Naval history -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending the realm : Roman naval capabilities in waters beyond the Mediterranean / Jorit Wintjes; title: The naval strategy of Roger II, King of Sicily / by Chuck Stanton; title: American influence on Canadian wartime shipbuilding / by Chris Madsen; title: King, Canada, and the convoys : a reappraisal of Adm. Ernest King's role in Operation Drumbeat / by Kenneth P. Hansen; title: Cutting dwarf pirates down to size : amphibious warfare in sixteenth-century East Asia / by Kenneth M. Swope; title: Training a reluctant ally : the U.S. Naval Advisory Mission to China, 1945-49 / Katherine K. Reist; title: French naval intelligence during the American Civil War and the Mexican Expedition, 1861-67 / by Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix; title: The strategic plight of the Spanish republican navy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 / Willard C. Frank Jr; title: The allied project to liberate Cuba, 1866-67 : Chile, Peru, and Colonel Barreda's confederate navy / David P. Werlich; title: A 'soldier of the sea' in Sub-Saharan Africa : Brevet Maj. A.R. Chater, DSO, Royal Marines, of the Sudanese Camel Corps, 1921-31 / by Donald F. Bittner; title: U.S. Marines' counterinsurgency campaigns in Nicaragua in the early twentieth century / Charles Neimeyer; title: Hidden lives : elderly cooks, powder boys, and fugitive slaves among eighteenth-century Anglo-American naval crews / Charles R. Foy; title: Navy women's pioneering experiences at sea / by Catherine A. Leahey.