Rise of American Naval Power / Harold Hance Sprout, Margaret Sprout.

Frontmatter -- Authors' Introduction to the 1966 Edition -- Contents -- I. Chart and Compass -- II. Sea Power and American Independence (1776-1783) -- III. Independence Without Sea Power (1783-1789) -- IV. Federalist Policy: Naval Expansion and Cruiser Warfare (1789-1801) -- V. Jeffersonian Policy: Retrenchment and Passive Coast Defense (1801-1812) -- VI. Strategic Lessons of the War of 1812 (1812-1815) -- VII. The Neglected Lessons of 1812 (1815-1837) -- VIII. From Sails to Steam: The First Phase (1837-1845) -- IX. Naval Policy, Manifest Destiny, and Slave Politics (1845-1861) -- X. The Civil War: Strategic Lessons and Technical Progress (1861-1865) -- XI. Last Tears of the Old Navy (1865-1881) -- XII. Beginnings of the New Navy (1881-1889) -- XIII. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Sea Power and the New Manifest Destiny (1889-1897) -- XIV. Mahan Vindicated: The War with Spain (1897-1901) -- XV. Mahan Triumphant: The Naval Policy of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) -- XVI. Rooseveltian Policy Without Roosevelt (1909-1913) -- XVII. Politics and Policy on the Eve of the Great War (1913-1914) -- XVIII. Europe at War: Neutrality and Preparedness (1914-1917) -- XIX. America at War: Strategic Lessons and Political Consequences (1917-1918) -- XX. The Log Reviewed -- Motes on Methods and Materials -- Index

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