The United States Army, a historical dictionary
In: Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest 20
35 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest 20
In: Tauris Parke paperbacks
In: Historical dictionaries of war, revolution, and civil unrest 9
World Affairs Online
In: The journal of military history, Band 73, Heft 4, S. 1384-1385
ISSN: 1543-7795
In: The journal of military history, Band 73, Heft 4, S. 1384
ISSN: 0899-3718
In: Army, Band 50, Heft 8, S. 8-11
ISSN: 0004-2455
In: Army, Band 49, Heft 11, S. 20-23
ISSN: 0004-2455
In: Parameters: the US Army War College quarterly, Band 19, Heft 1
ISSN: 2158-2106
In: Parameters: journal of the US Army War College, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 32
ISSN: 0031-1723
In: Parameters: the US Army War College quarterly, Band 16, Heft 1
ISSN: 2158-2106
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 95-98
ISSN: 1743-7881
In: Labor history, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 338-358
ISSN: 1469-9702
In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American men and goods in American-made ships moved out over Alfred Thayer Mahan's "broad common," the sea, to extend the country's commerce, power, political influence, and culture. Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Lt. John "Mad Jack" Percival, and Comm. Matthew Calbraith Perry are among some of the colorful names that many will recognize. They are all gone now, these strong men and their stout ships, who carried their country's colors up to the Northern Lights, down to the Antarctic's stillness, over the cutting coral, across the Roaring Forties, and into the great ports and the backwaters of the world. The results of their adventures, however, are not forgotten, but instead set the stage for America to indisputably become the dominant world power of the past century.