Add this copy of Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812, Vol. I to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Greenwood Pub Group.
Add this copy of Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812 [Volume II to cart. $85.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by Little, Brown, and Company.
Edition:
Presumed first edition/first printing thus
Publisher:
Little, Brown, and Company
Published:
1905
Alibris ID:
13469940393
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Good. Volume II ONLY. xviii, [2], 465, [2] p. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Fold-outs. Index. No dust jacket. Cover has wear and soiling. Lettering faded on spine. Corners bumped and edges have some wear. Somewhat shaken. Scuff on fep. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer, considered one of the most important naval strategists of the nineteenth century. In 1885 he was appointed Lecturer in Naval History and Tactics at the U. S. Naval War College, and served as President of the institution between 1886 and 1889. His series of books examining the role of sea power in history influenced the rapid growth of international navies during the period before World War I. This two-volume study of the Anglo-American war of 1812, first published in 1905, made an important contribution to strategic studies and international relations. Mahan examines the causes of the conflict, arguing that its roots went back to the seventeenth century. Although the naval battles in the war of 1812 were small-scale rather than large fleet actions, Mahan shows that they were nevertheless crucial to the outcome The classic of naval history, vividly revealing the naval war of 1812, not as a spectacular series of single-ship actions, but as a progressive strangulation of American economic life. Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact; it was most famously presented in The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 1783 (1890). The concept had an enormous influence in shaping the strategic thought of navies across the world, especially those of the United States, Germany, Japan and Britain, ultimately causing a European naval arms race in the 1890s which culminated in the First World War. His ideas still permeate the US Navy doctrine.
