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* [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]]
* [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]]
* [[Sea Power]]
* [[Sea Power]]
* [[Union Blockade]
* [[United States Navy]]
* [[United States Navy]]
* [[World War II, Pacific]]
* [[World War II, Pacific]]
===Battles===
===Battles and campaigns===
* [[Battle of Pearl Harbor]]  
* [[Battle of Pearl Harbor]], 1941
* [[Battle of Jutland]]  
* [[Battle of Jutland]]. 1916
* [[Union Blockade]], U.S. Civil War 1861-65


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
===Surveys===
* Potter, E. B.  ''Sea Power: A Naval History'' (1982), covers all major battled in world history
* Rose, Susan. ''Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/108049718 online edition]
* Rose, Susan. ''Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500'' (2002) [http://www.questia.com/read/108049718 online edition]
* Sondhaus, Lawrence. ''Naval Warfare, 1815-1914'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/109459237 online edition]
* Sondhaus, Lawrence. ''Naval Warfare, 1815-1914'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/109459237 online edition]
===Major nations===
*  Howarth, Stephen. ''To Shining Sea -- A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991'' (1991).
* Love, Robert W. ''History of the US Navy: 1942-1991'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/History-U-S-Navy-1942-1991-U/dp/0811718638/ref=sr_1_9/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191328523&sr=1-9  excerpt and text search]
* Love, Robert W. ''History of the US Navy: 1775-1941'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/History-U-S-Navy-1775-1941-Robert/dp/081171862X/ref=sr_1_10/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191328523&sr=1-10 excerpt and text search]
===Sea Power===
* Koburger Jr. Charles W. ''Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century: Projecting a Naval Revolution'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/read/107111678 online edition]
* Mahan, Alfred Thayer. ''The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783'' (1890) 557 pages; perhaps the most influential history book ever written [http://books.google.com/books?id=tfQBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=intitle:influence+intitle:sea+inauthor:mahan&num=30&as_brr=1 Google version]
===Technology===
See also [[Naval guns > Bibliography|Naval guns]]
* Brown, David K. ''Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45'' (1992)
* Friedman, Norman. ''U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present'' (1983), highly detailed guide 
* Greene, Jack, and Alessandro Massignani. ''Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/read/100927342 online edition]
* Guilmartin, John F., Jr. ''Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century'' (2003)
* Lambert, Nicholas A. ''Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Fishers-Revolution-Studies-Maritime-History/dp/1570034923/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203294993&sr=1-36 excerpt and text search]
* McBride, William M. ''Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945'' (2000)  [http://www.amazon.com/Technological-1865-1945-Hopkins-Studies-Technology/dp/0801864860/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203293238&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Morison, Elting E. ''Men Machines and Modern Times'' (1968) [http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Modern-Times-Elting-Morison/dp/0262630184/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203309361&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916," ''Journal of Military History'' 67 (January 2003): 85–136 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-3718(200301)67%3A1%3C85%3AAMOTTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C in JSTOR]
===Wars===
====18th century====
* Allen, Gardner W. ''A Naval History of the American Revolution'' (1913) [http://books.google.com/books?id=fuPb5uhDxUwC&pg=PA1&dq=inauthor:Allen+inauthor:Gardner&num=30&as_brr=1 online at Google]
* Fowler, William M. ''Rebels Under Sail'' (1976), the standard scholarly history of the naval warfare during the American Revolution
* Morison, Samuel Eliot. ''John Paul Jones'' (1959), Pulitzer Prize [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jones-Biography-Bluejacket/dp/1557504105/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191476384&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
* Thomas, Evan. ''John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/John-Paul-Jones-Sailor-American/dp/0743258045/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191476384&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
====Early Modern: 1500-1790====
* Corbett, Julian S. ''Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power'' (1898) [http://www.questia.com/read/8906402  online edition vol 1]; also [http://www.questia.com/read/96227572 online edition vol 2]
====19th century====
=====Napoleonic=====
* Mahan, Alfred Thayer. ''The influence of sea power upon the War of 1812'' 2 vols (1905) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0JnrLaBEdHaTa7aGfqMskdo&id=iS7lSwx6VQcC&printsec=toc&dq=Mahan,+Alfred+Thayer.+The+influence+of+sea+power+upon+the+War+of+1812&as_brr=1&sig=q4Kfmz767_5XfK7PR0IXDM7rrmw online edition]
*  Pope, Dudley. ''Decision at Trafalgar.'' (1960) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1216353 online edition]
* Roosevelt, Theodore. ''The Naval War of 1812'' (1882). [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9104 eText at Project Gutenberg]
====20th century====
=====World War I=====
See also [[World War I > Bibliography]]
* Gray, Edwyn A. ''The U-Boat War, 1914-1918'' (1994)
* Halpern, Paul G. ''A Naval History of World War I''(1995)
=====World War II=====
See also [[World War II, Pacific > Bibliography|World War II, Pacific]]
*  Blair, Clay Jr. ''Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan'' (1975).
[[Image:USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor.jpg|thumb|350px|Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941]]
* Buell, Thomas. ''Master of Seapower: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King'' Naval Institute Press, 1976.
* Gailey, Harry A. ''The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay'' (1995) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94432774  online edition]
* King, Ernest J. ''U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy'' (1946) [http://www.questia.com/read/879281 online edition]
* Kirby, S. Woodburn.  ''The War Against Japan''. 4 vols. (1957-1965). Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.
* Morison, Samuel Eliot. ''The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War'' (1963), one-volume version of his massive 15 vol history (1947-62) of combat operations
* Potter, John D. ''Yamamoto'' 1967.
* Potter, E.B. ''Nimitz'' (1988)
* Prange, Gordon W. ''At Dawn We Slept''. 1982. Pearl Harbor
* Prange, Gordon W. ''Miracle at Midway'' (1982).
* Reynolds, Clark G. ''The Fast Carriers: Forging of an Air Navy''  (1968).
* Spector, Ronald. ''Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan'' Free Press, 1985.
* Turnbull, Archibald D. and Clifford Lord. ''History of United States Naval Aviation'' (1949).
*  Willmott, H. P. ''The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June, 1942'' (1983). 
====Cold war and after====
* Brasher,  Bart. ''Implosion: Downsizing the U.S. Military, 1987-2015'' (2000) [http://www.questia.com/read/25991890 online edition]
*  Duncan, Francis. ''Rickover and the Nuclear Navy'' (1990).
*  Hartmann, Frederick H. ''Naval Renaissance -- The U.S. Navy in the 1980s'' (1990).
*  Lehman, John F., Jr. ''Command of the Seas: Building the 600 Ship Navy'' (1989).
* Love, Robert W. ''History of the US Navy: 1942-1991'' (1992) [http://www.amazon.com/History-U-S-Navy-1942-1991-U/dp/0811718638/ref=sr_1_9/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191328523&sr=1-9  excerpt and text search]
* Polmar, Norman. ''The American Submarine'' (1981). well-illustrated popular history
*  Ryan, Paul B. ''First Line of Defense -- The U.S. Navy Since 1945'' (1981)

Revision as of 20:20, 15 March 2008

Naval warfare considers the miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BC to the present.

See also

Battles and campaigns

Bibliography

Surveys

  • Potter, E. B. Sea Power: A Naval History (1982), covers all major battled in world history
  • Rose, Susan. Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 (2002) online edition
  • Sondhaus, Lawrence. Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 (2001) online edition

Major nations

  • Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea -- A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991 (1991).
  • Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
  • Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1775-1941 (1992) excerpt and text search

Sea Power

  • Koburger Jr. Charles W. Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century: Projecting a Naval Revolution (1997) online edition
  • Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) 557 pages; perhaps the most influential history book ever written Google version

Technology

See also [[Naval guns > Bibliography|Naval guns]]

  • Brown, David K. Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45 (1992)
  • Friedman, Norman. U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present (1983), highly detailed guide
  • Greene, Jack, and Alessandro Massignani. Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891 (1998) online edition
  • Guilmartin, John F., Jr. Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century (2003)
  • Lambert, Nicholas A. Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (2002) excerpt and text search
  • McBride, William M. Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Morison, Elting E. Men Machines and Modern Times (1968) excerpt and text search
  • Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916," Journal of Military History 67 (January 2003): 85–136 in JSTOR

Wars

18th century

  • Allen, Gardner W. A Naval History of the American Revolution (1913) online at Google
  • Fowler, William M. Rebels Under Sail (1976), the standard scholarly history of the naval warfare during the American Revolution
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones (1959), Pulitzer Prize excerpt and text search
  • Thomas, Evan. John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (2003) excerpt and text search

Early Modern: 1500-1790

19th century

Napoleonic

20th century

World War I

See also [[World War I > Bibliography]]

  • Gray, Edwyn A. The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1994)
  • Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I(1995)
World War II

See also [[World War II, Pacific > Bibliography|World War II, Pacific]]

  • Blair, Clay Jr. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (1975).
Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941
  • Buell, Thomas. Master of Seapower: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King Naval Institute Press, 1976.
  • Gailey, Harry A. The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (1995) online edition
  • King, Ernest J. U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946) online edition
  • Kirby, S. Woodburn. The War Against Japan. 4 vols. (1957-1965). Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (1963), one-volume version of his massive 15 vol history (1947-62) of combat operations
  • Potter, John D. Yamamoto 1967.
  • Potter, E.B. Nimitz (1988)
  • Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept. 1982. Pearl Harbor
  • Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway (1982).
  • Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: Forging of an Air Navy (1968).
  • Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan Free Press, 1985.
  • Turnbull, Archibald D. and Clifford Lord. History of United States Naval Aviation (1949).
  • Willmott, H. P. The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June, 1942 (1983).

Cold war and after

  • Brasher, Bart. Implosion: Downsizing the U.S. Military, 1987-2015 (2000) online edition
  • Duncan, Francis. Rickover and the Nuclear Navy (1990).
  • Hartmann, Frederick H. Naval Renaissance -- The U.S. Navy in the 1980s (1990).
  • Lehman, John F., Jr. Command of the Seas: Building the 600 Ship Navy (1989).
  • Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
  • Polmar, Norman. The American Submarine (1981). well-illustrated popular history
  • Ryan, Paul B. First Line of Defense -- The U.S. Navy Since 1945 (1981)
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