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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 Ploughshares into Swords: The Royal Navy and Merchant Marine Auxiliaries in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2 Reinforcements and Supplies from Overseas: British Strategic Sealift in the First World War -- 3 Opportunity vs Control: The Diplomacy of Japanese Shipping in the First World War -- 4 The Royal Navy and Inter-war Plans for War against Japan: The Problem of Oil Supply -- 5 American and British Merchant Shipping: Competiton and Preparation, 1933-39 -- 6 Maritime Powers in Transition: Britain's Shipping Capacity Crisis and the Mobilization of Neutral American Power, 1940-41 -- 7 To Market or to War? NATO Shipping Pools and the Demise of the Canadian Merchant Marine -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The epigraphs that open this article are but three of a vast number of quotes from U.S. presidents, members of Congress, and military leaders calling for support of a U.S.-flag merchant marine.1 Throughout American history, dozens of laws have been proposed and passed that have, in varying degrees, supported the operation of U.S.-flag ships in both coastal and international trade; no law ever passed has called for a reduction in or the elimination of U.S.-flag ships. And yet, despite periods of great growth at various times in U.S. history, the U.S. Merchant Marine, once again, is in serious decline today.

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