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Sea-power

Here are entered works on long term questions of naval strength, including weapons, installations, national resources, etc., allowing a country to maintain control of the sea and the air space above. Works on the strategic and tactical employment of land or sea-based forces of a country at the time its maritime interests are threatened, so as to gain or exploit control of the sea or deny its use to the enemy, are entered under Sea control.

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• Military readiness
• Naval art and science

• Naval history
• Naval strategy
• Navies

• Sea-power -- Great Britain

• Dominion of the sea
• Military power
• Naval policy
• Navy
• Sea, Dominion of the
• Seapower
• Command of the sea

• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Soveraignty of the British Seas, Proved by Records, History, and the Municipal Laws of This Kingdom: Written in the Year 1633 (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1739), by John Borough (multiple formats at Google)
• The Sovereignty of the British Seas: Written in the Year 1633 (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, Ltd., 1920), by John Borough, ed. by Thomas Callander Wade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sea-Power, and Other Studies, by Cyprian Bridge (Gutenberg text)
• Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1905), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The World's Highway: Some Notes on America's Relation to Sea Power and Non-Military Sanctions for the Law of Nations (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1915), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sea, Land, and Air Strategy: A Comparison (London: J. Murray, 1914), by George Aston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spectre of Navalism (London: Darling and Son, 1915), by Julian Stafford Corbett (page images here at Penn)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations Which Have From the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time (new and revised edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1878), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Walter W. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal Naval History: Comprising the Naval Operations of the Principal Maritime Nations of the World, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (New York and Hartford: H. E. Robins and Co., 1851), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), ed. by Richard Harding and Agustín Guimerá Ravina (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), ed. by Richard Harding and Agustín Guimerá Ravina (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• Publications of the Navy Records Society, ed. by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
• The American Neptune (partial serial archives)

• The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (London: Methuen and Co., c1910), by C. H. Haring (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Pirate Stories (2 volumes in 1; New York: Tudor Pub. Co. 1929), ed. by Joseph Lewis French (Gutenberg text and page images)
• In the Wake of the Buccaneers (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Holland, and a Vindication, in Answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell (2 volumes; London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by William Dampier, ed. by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rare Trauailes of Iob Hortop, an Englishman, Who Was Not Heard of in Three and Twentie Yeeres Space (1925 photostat reprint; originally published London: Printed for W. Wright, 1591), by Job Hortop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. O. Exquemelin, ed. by H. Powell, contrib. by Basil Ringrose (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of Those Bold and Daring Freebooters, Chiefly Along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies, and in the Great South Sea, Succeeding the Civil Wars in England (new edition, with notes on piracy off the New England coast; Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin; Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1856), by A. O. Exquemelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Continuation of A Voyage to New-Holland, &c., in the Year 1699 (1709), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Voyage to New Holland, &c., in the Year 1699 (1703), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voyages and Descriptions (1699), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: His Early Exploits (c1940), by Jeffery Farnol (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main (Boston: G. W. Studley, 1892), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stolen Treasure (illustrated by the author; 1907), by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle, ed. by Merle Johnson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Cup of Gold (originally published 1929; second edition 1936), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore, by J. R. Hutchinson (Gutenberg text)

• Geschichte der K. K. Österreichischen Armee, ihrer Heranbildung und Organisation, so wie ihrer Schicksale, Thaten und Feldzüge, von der Frühesten bis auf die Jetzige Zeit (4 volumes in 1, in German; Vienna: C. Gerold und Sohn, 1852-54), by Hermann Meynert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boys' Book of Sea Fights: Famous Naval Engagements From Drake to Beatty (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, c1920), by Chelsea Curtis Fraser
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England (2 volumes (American and British imprints), 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson, contrib. by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Essay on Naval Tactics, Systematical and Historical, With Explanatory Plates (third edition; Edinburgh: Printed for A. Black; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827), by John Clerk, contrib. by Lord Rodney (page images at HathiTrust)
• In a Conning Tower, or, How I Took H.M.S. "Majestic" Into Action: A Story of Modern Ironclad Warfare (fourth edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1891), by H. O. Arnold-Forster, illust. by William Heysham Overend (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Privateering in King George's War, 1739-1748 (1928), by Howard M. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, Begun in 1708, and Finish'd in 1711 (London: Printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712), by Woodes Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General of England, in the British House of Commons, May 13, 1864 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1864), by George Bemis (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.