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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780554363417
ISBN: 0554363410
Label: BiblioLife
Manufacturer: BiblioLife
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: August 18, 2008
Publisher: BiblioLife
Studio: BiblioLife

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Influential classic of naval history and tactics still used as text in war colleges. Read by Kaiser Wilhelm, both Roosevelts, other leaders. First paperback edition. 4 maps. 24 battle plans.





Rating: - Abysmally published
Mahan's work is great for those studying the development of US sea power. However, NuVision has managed to take this great historical work and turn it into the worst published book I have ever seen.

It seems as though they printed out the book directly from the OCR with little or no proofing. They apparently had no interest in meeting a reader's most modest expectations. There are frequent obvious readability-compromising typos, for instance the date 1607 on page 117 should be 1667, ... Read More

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Rating: - Ponderous and ponderable
Mahan wrote to his contemporary heads of state as Machiavelli wrote to the Medici's. Passages bemoaning the state of the American navy in the late 19th century are sprinkled throughout this text. U.S. policy in the following years and his remembrance in Annapolis, aside from famed anecdotal readers and devotees, attest to his being heard.

While the thesis is self-evident in the title, this book is a worthwhile read to those interested in history and the history of empires. Mahan offers ... Read More

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Rating: - Classic Study of Naval Power
Introductory chapter provides classic overview of importance of naval power and is alone worth the price of the book. Historical chapters are perhaps less relevant today in an era of air and space power, as they were written during the transition from sail to steam navies. Introductory chapter provides inspiration for "out of the box" thinking about strategy, political power, and business, made significant by its view that the oceans provide a means of connecting nations and peoples rather than imposing ... Read More

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Rating: - The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783
The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660-1783 is practically a historical document. The book's first copyright was in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. The copyright was transferred to Ellen Lyle Mahan in 1918 which eventually fell to the publisher who has published twelve editions of this book.

The style of the writing and the format of the text adhere to that of the original text and the traditional style. These aspects not only allow the reader insight and virtually unheard of detail about ... Read More

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Rating: - The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783
This book ,written by an obscure U.S. Navy officer, is credited with opening the eyes of many emerging countries to the need for seapower. It lit off the first arms races that almost bankrupted countries building "dreadnoughts" (early Battleships) and lead to the rise of both Japan ,Germany and the U.S. as serious Naval powers actively seeking colonies.

This book ignited the fuse that lead to the battle of Jutland and to Pearl Harbor.

History buffs,Naval officers and students getting ... Read More

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