American Naval History A Guide

by Coletta, Paolo E.

• ISBN13: 9780810833029
• ISBN10: 0810833026
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-16
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Includes titles about the last years of the Reagan presidency, George Bush's presidency, and the first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency. The list of periodicals has been expanded and revised considerably. Additionally, the titles now contain useful abbreviations that detail whether the texts include maps, diagrams, illustrations, glossaries, and appendixes.

Author Biography

Paolo E. Coletta has had two careers--one academic, one naval. He was awarded a B.S. in Education, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees by the University of Missouri (Columbia, 1938-1942) and taught at his alma mater from 1940-1942. He taught at Stephens College, in the same city, until he received a direct commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve in March 1943. After World War II he taught briefly at South Dakota State College, the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and then for thirty-seven years at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Coletta rejoined the Naval Reserve in 1951, serving four years as the operations officer of a Naval Reserve Surface Division, and taught graduate courses at the Naval Reserve Officers School for seventeen years. He retired from the reserve in 1973 with the grade of captain, and from the Academy in 1983 as a Distinguished Meritorious Professor.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Periodicals	xi
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Bibliographic Aids and Reference Sources
General	1	(23)
Ships and Aircraft	24	(22)
Chronologies, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias	46	(7)
Naval Terms	53	(3)
Maps and Battle Diagrams	56	(2)
Personnel Directories	58	(2)
Films, Videos, Audio Cassettes, and Museum Displays	60	(2)
Transcripts of Oral Interviews	62	(1)
Fiction and Literature	63	(2)
Concepts and Definitions	65	(4)
Ships, Colonies, and Wars, 1689--1776	69	(12)
Sea Power in the Revolutionary War	81	(42)
A Chip on the European War Table, 1783--1815	123	(32)
The U.S. Navy at Peace and War, 1815--1861	155	(18)
Naval Power in the Civil War, 1861--1865	173	(44)
The Post-Civil War Denouement and the Rise of the New Navy, 1865--1898	217	(12)
The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion	229	(10)
The U.S. Navy Comes of Age, 1898--1914	239	(14)
Naval Power and World War I: Europe, 1914--1917	253	(14)
The U.S. Navy in World War I, 1917--1919	267	(14)
Naval Disarmament and Rearmament, 1918--1941	281	(40)
The Coming of World War II	321	(16)
World War II in Atlantic Waters, September 1939--December 1941	337	(130)
The U.S. Navy in World War II: Atlantic Theater
General	355	(30)
Northern Europe	385	(12)
The Mediterranean	397	(7)
Battle of the Atlantic	404	(17)
The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part I, From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
General	421	(15)
Pearl Harbor	436	(13)
Wake, Guam, and the Loss of the Southern Resources Area	449	(8)
Early Allied Carrier Raids and the Battle of the Coral Sea	457	(2)
Battle of Midway	459	(5)
The Aleutians	464	(3)
The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part II, The Campaign against Rabaul	467	(40)
The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part III, The Dual Advance and End of the Japanese Empire
General	477	(23)
Submarine Warfare	500	(7)
The Cold War and American Defense Reorganization, 1945--1950	507	(30)
Korea and Continued Communist Containment, 1950--1961	537	(18)
Kennedy, Johnson, and Sea Power in the 1960s and 1970s	555	(28)
The Challenge of the Soviet Navy, and the U.S. Navy's Forward Maritime Strategy	583	(14)
Sea Power for the 1980s	597	(22)
Reagan and the Rearming of America	619	(28)
Reagan and Nuclear Weapons: START, SDI, and SALT without SALT	647	(26)
To Russia with Love: The Bush Administration and the First Term of William Clinton	673	(188)
Special Topics
Amphibious Operations	709	(5)
Aviation	714	(28)
Decorations and Awards	742	(2)
Education, Ethics, and Leadership	744	(12)
Family Life, Retirement, Widows	756	(4)
Ceremonies, Drills, and Traditions	760	(1)
Intelligence and Counterintelligence	761	(12)
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency	773	(1)
Logistics	774	(14)
Maritime Law	788	(4)
Merchant Marine	792	(5)
Mine Warfare	797	(2)
Minorities	799	(3)
Navigation	802	(4)
Ocean Science	806	(4)
Ordnance	810	(8)
Reserve Forces	818	(1)
Special Units	819	(4)
Strategy, Tactics, and War Games	823	(13)
Terrorism and Antiterrorism	836	(4)
Uniforms, Badges, and Insignia	840	(2)
Women in the Navy	842	(11)
Religion	853	(2)
Music and Art	855	(3)
Physical Fitness	858	(1)
Poetry	858	(3)
Personal Author Index	861	(58)
Subject Index	919	(16)
About the Author	935