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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Broader terms:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Sea-power -- Early works to 1800
- Sea-power -- Great Britain
- Sea-power -- History
- Sea-power -- United States
- Dominion of the sea
- Military power
- Naval policy
- Navy
- Sea, Dominion of the
- Seapower
- Command of the sea
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Heresies of Sea Power (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Fred T. Jane- 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)
- Japan's Influence on American Naval Power, 1897-1917 (University of California Publications in History v36; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947), by Outten Jones Clinard (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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye: A Poem on the Use of Sea-Power, 1436 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926), ed. by George F. Warner (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)
- U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #33; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2008), ed. by John B. Hattendorf and Peter M. Swartz (PDF at Ibiblio)
- U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #30; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2007), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)
- U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1990s: Selected Documents (Naval War College Newport Papers #26; Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2006), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at Ibiblio)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Naval history- 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
- 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)
- Doing Naval History: Essays Toward Improvement (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1995), ed. by John B. Hattendorf (PDF at ibiblio.org)
- The American Neptune (partial serial archives)
- Publications of the Navy Records Society, ed. by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives)
- The Mariner's Mirror (partial serial archives)
- Raveneau de Lussan, Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and Early French Filibuster of the Pacific: A Translation into English of his Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the Following Years With the Filibusters (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1930), by Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, ed. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- On the Spanish Main: or, Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien (London: Methuen and Co., c1906), by John Masefield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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)
- In the Wake of the Buccaneers (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by A. Hyatt Verrill
- 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
- The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore, by J. R. Hutchinson (Gutenberg text)
- Historical Researches on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and Romans; in Which Elephants and Wild Beasts Were Employed or Slain, and the Remarkable Local Agreement of History With the Remains of Such Animals Found in Europe and Siberia (London: Printed for the author and sold by Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826), by John Ranking
- 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
- 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
- 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 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
- 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)
- Privateers and Privateering (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1910), by E. P. Statham
- 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.