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Naval Power A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 Onwards

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ISBN-10: 0230202802

ISBN-13: 9780230202801

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jeremy Black

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List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Publication date: 11/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

List of tables
List of abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1500-1660
Ships
Portuguese naval power
Naval warfare
Mediterranean warfare
Baltic warfare
Adantic warfare
The Armada
Dutch naval power
The French navy
English naval power
A naval revolution?
1660-1775
1660-90
The 1690s
The War of the Spanish Succession, 1702-13
The Anglo-French Alliance, 1716-31
Conflict with the Bourbons, 1739-48
Naval power and British policy, 1749-55
The Seven Years' War, 1756-63
The war at sea
1775-1815
Non-Western navies
The USA
European navies
Infrastructure
Battle
Improved capability
The War of American Independence, 1775-83
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
The War of 1812-15
British naval power
Blockade
Britain's maritime position
Defining naval strength and modernity
1815-1914
1815-50
Steam power
The 1850s
The 1860s
The 1870s-80s
Towards the dreadnought
1914-45
The First World War
Submarine warfare
Mines
A host of naval powers, 1914-18
Inter-war developments
Naval air power
Tasks and roles
The Second World War, 1939-45
The U-boat war
War in the Pacific
Amphibious warfare
1945-2010
The changing nature of naval power
The USA as the naval superpower
The Cold War
Naval conflict
American-Soviet competition
After the Cold War
Power projection
Trade protection
Debating procurement
Conclusions
The future
China: The next naval great power?
Russian naval moves
Counter-insurgency at sea
The diversity of naval powers
Conclusions
Conclusions
Notes
Selected further reading
Index