Rise of American Naval PowerPrinceton University Press, 08/12/2015 - 422 من الصفحات Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development from 1776 to 1918. |
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... Power . The book was published in the spring of 1939. A year and a half later Princeton Uni- versity Press published the sequel , Toward a New Order of Sea Power . The Rise closed with the victory of 1918. The sequel carried the story ...
... Sea Power , published in 1940. In a very real sense , those chapters are an addendum to The Rise . The ideas expressed therein underwent further modification in our later books and articles . Because of their relevance to what we had ...
... sea rendered the British position strategically central vis - à - vis every continental country , so long as the British Navy controlled the sea . Britain controlled the sea by controlling the ocean portals of Europe . Broadly speaking ...
... sea . In the metaphor coined by Mackinder , British naval power , though deployed mainly in European waters , in effect “ enveloped " the " world promontory " of Eurasia " which stands forward to the Cape of Good Hope from between the ...
... Sea , and because no American state approached the greater powers of Europe in military po- tential , the homeland of the United States could be made more secure at lower cost than was ever possible in the case of Britain . Distance ...