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Series Page NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1
SPECIAL SUBJECTS
Diplomacy and Foreign Relations
Alden, Caroll S. Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1936. 231 pp.
Allen, Gardner W. Our Navy and the West Indian Pirates.
Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1929. 107 pp.
Bailey, Thomas A. "Dewey and the Germans at Manila Bay."
American Historical Review 45 (1939): 59- 81.
------. Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese-American Crisis:
An Account of the International Complications Arising From the
Race Problem on the Pacific Coast. Stanford: Stanford Univ.
Press, 1934. 353 pp. (Reprinted 1964 by Peter Smith).
Bailey, Thomas A., and Paul B. Ryan. Hitler vs. Roosevelt:
The Undeclared Naval War. New York: Free Press, 1979. 303
pp.
Barrow, Clayton R., comp. America Spreads Her Sails: U.S. Seapower
in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1973.
241 pp.
A collection of fourteen separately authored essays.
Bernath, Stuart L. Squall Across the Atlantic: American
Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy. Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press, 1970. 229 pp.
Betts, Richard K. Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1977. 292 pp.
Bigelow, John. France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868:
An International Episode. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1888. 247 pp. (Reprinted 1968 by Bergaman Publishers; 1973 by
Books for Libraries; reprinted by Library Resources as LAC Microbook).
Billingsley, Edward B. In Defense of Neutral Rights: The United
States Navy and the Wars of Independence in Chile and Peru.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1967. 266 pp.
Blair, Leon B. Western Window in the Arab World. Austin:
Univ. of Texas Press, 1970. 328 pp.
Traces the development of U.S. military bases in Morocco.
Blechman, Barry M., and Stephen S. Kaplan with David K. Hall. Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1978. 584 pp.
Examines the military education system as it relates to politico-military affairs.
Borg, Dorothy. The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis
of 1933-1938: From the Manchurian Incident Through the Initial
Stage of the Undeclared Sino-Japanese War. Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1964. 674 pp.
Braisted, William R. The United States Navy in the Pacific,
1897-1909. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1958. 282 pp.
-----. The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909-1922.
Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1971. 741 pp.
Bryson, Thomas A. Tars, Turks, and Tankers: The Role of the
United States Navy in the Middle East, 1800-1979. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980. 269 pp.
Buckley, Thomas H. The United States and the Washington Conference,
1921-1922. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1970. 222
pp.
Cable, Sir James. Diplomacy at Sea. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 1985. 191 pp.
First published in London by Macmillan, 1984. A collection of twelve essays by the author on the role of naval power in global strategy.
-----. Gunboat Diplomacy: Political Applications of Limited Naval Force. 2d ed. Studies in International Security, No. 16. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 288 pp.
Includes a chronology of the application of limited naval force, 1919-1979.
Case, Lynn M., and Warren F. Spencer. The United States
and France: Civil War Diplomacy. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania
Press, 1970. 747 pp.
Challener, Richard D. Admirals, Generals, and American Foreign
Policy, 1898-1914. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press,
1973. 433 pp.
Chester, Colby M. "Diplomacy of the Quarter Deck." American
Journal of International Law 8 (1914): 443-476.
Clinard, Outten J. Japan's Influence on American Naval Power,
1897-1917. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1947. 235
pp.
Cole, Bernard D. Gunboats and Marines: The United States Navy
in China, 1925-1928. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; London:
Associated University Presses, 1983. 229 pp.
Davidonis, Anthony C. The American Naval Mission in the Adriatic,
1918-1921. Administrative Reference Service Report No. 4.
Washington: Administrative Office, U.S. Navy Department, 1943.
99 pp.
Dingman, Roger. Power in the Pacific: The Origins of Naval
Arms Limitation, 1914-1922. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1976. 318 pp.
Dulles, Foster R. Yankees and Samurai: America's Role in the
Emergence of Modern Japan: 1791-1900. New York: Harper &
Row, 1965. 275 pp.
Falk, Edwin A. From Perry to Pearl Harbor: The Struggle for
Supremacy in the Pacific. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran
and Co., 1943. 326 pp.
Feipel, Louis N. "The Navy and Filibustering in the Fifties."
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 44 (March 1918): 767-780,
1009-1029, 1219-1240, 1527-1545, 1837-1848, 2063-2085.
. "The United States Navy in Mexico, 1821-1914,: U.S. Naval
Institute Proceedings 41 (January 1915): 33-52, 489-497,
889-903, 1159-1172, 1527-2534, 1993-2002; 42 (January 1916): 171-182.
Field, James A. America and the Mediterranean World, 1776-1882.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969. 485 pp.
Foote, Andrew H. Africa and the American Flag. New York:
Appleton, 1854. 390 pp. (Reprinted 1969 by Negro Universities
Press; 1970 by Dawsons; reprinted by Library Resources as LAC
Microbook).
Foote commanded U.S. brig Perry on the coast of Africa, 1850-1851.
Goldberg, Joyce S. The Baltimore Affair. Lincoln, Nebr.:
Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1986. 207 pp.
Goodhart, Philip. Fifty Ships That Saved the World: The Foundation
of the Anglo-American Alliance. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1965. 267 pp.
An account of the destroyer-for-bases exchange of 1941.
Hagan, Kenneth J. American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old
Navy, 1877-1889. Contributions in Military History Series,
No. 4. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1973. 262 pp.
Hall, Claude H. "Abel P. Upshur and the Navy as an Instrument
of Foreign Policy." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
69 (1961): 290-299.
Harris, Frank S. "The Navy and the Diplomatic Frontier."
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 62 (April 1936): 473-486.
Healy, David F. Gunboat Diplomacy in the Wilson Era: The U.S.
Navy in Haiti, 1915-1916. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press,
1976. 268 pp.
Heinrichs, Waldo H. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt
and American Entry Into World War II. New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1988. 279 pp.
Herwig, Holger H. Politics of Frustration: The United States
in German Naval Planning, 1889-1941. Boston: Little, Brown,
1976. 323 pp.
Howe, Jonathan T. Multicrises: Sea Power and Global Politics
in the Missile Age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971. 412
pp.
Johnson, Robert E. Far China Station: The U.S. Navy in Asian
Waters, 1800-1898. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979.
307 pp.
-----. Thence Round Cape Horn: The Story of United States Naval
Forces on Pacific Station, 1818-1923. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 1963. 276 pp.
Jones, Wilbur D. The Confederate Rams at Birkenhead: A Chapter
in Anglo-American Relations. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate
Pub. Co., 1961. 124 pp.
Klay, Andor. Daring Diplomacy: The Case of the First American
Ultimatum. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1957. 246
pp.
Knox, Dudley W. The Eclipse of American Sea Power. New
York: Army & Navy Journal, 1922. 140 pp.
Study of the 1922 naval disarmament treaty as it affected the United States Navy.
Leopold, Richard W. The Growth of American Foreign Policy:
A History. New York: Knopf, 1962. 848 pp.
Leutze, James R. Bargaining for Supremacy: Anglo-American Naval
Collaboration, 1937-1941. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina
Press, 1977. 328 pp.
Livermore, Seward W. "The American Navy as a Factor in World
Politics, 1903-1913." American Historical Review 63
(July 1958): 863-879.
. "Battleship Diplomacy in South America: 1905-1925."
Journal of Modern History 16 (August 1944): 31-48.
. "Theodore Roosevelt, the American Navy, and the Venezuelan
Crisis of 1902-1903." American Historical Review 51
(April 1946): 452-471.
Long, David F. Gold Braid and Foreign Relations: Diplomatic
Activities of U.S. Naval Officers, 1798- 1883. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 1988. 502 pp.
Loubat, Joseph Florimond, duc de. Narrative of the Mission
to Russia, in 1866, of the Hon. Gustavos Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy, From the Journal and Notes of J.F. Loubat. Edited
by John D. Champlin. New York: Appleton, 1873. 444 pp. (Reprinted
1970 by Arno).
McCully, Newton A. The McCully Report: The Russo-Japanese War,
1904-05. Edited by Richard A. von Doenhoff. Annapolis: Naval
Institute Press, 1977. 338 pp.
Matthews, Franklin. Back to Hampton Roads: Cruise of the U.S.
Atlantic Fleet From San Francisco to Hampton Roads, July 7, 1908-February
22, 1909. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1909. 292 pp.
-----. With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships
of the United States Atlantic Fleet From Hampton Roads to the
Golden Gate, December 1907-May 1908. New York: B. W. Huebsch,
1908. 321 pp.
Merli, Frank J. Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865.
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1970. 342 pp.
Neumann, William L. America Encounters Japan: From Perry to
MacArthur. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. 353 pp. (Reprinted
1969 by Johns Hopkins).
O'Connor, Raymond G. Perilous Equilibrium: The United States and
the London Naval Conference of 1930. Lawrence, Kans.: Univ. of
Kansas Press, 1962. 188 pp. (Reprinted 1969 by Greenwood).
Offutt, Milton. The Protection of Citizens Abroad by the Armed
Forces of the United States. Studies in Historical and Political
Science, Ser. 46, No. 4. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press,
1928. 170 pp. (Reprinted 1972 by Kraus).
Owsley, Frank L. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the
Confederate States of America, 2d ed. Revised by Harriet Chappell.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1959. 617 pp.
[First published in 1931].
Palmer, Michael A. Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America's
Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf, 1833-1992. New York: Free
Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan
International, 1992. 328 pp.
Paullin, Charles O. American Voyages to the Orient, 1690-1865:
An Account of Merchant and Naval Activities in China, Japan and
the Various Pacific Islands. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute,
1971. 182 pp. [First published as a series of five articles in
the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 1910-1911.]
-----. Diplomatic Negotiations of American Naval Officers,
1778-1883. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1912. 380 pp. (Reprinted
1967 by Peter Smith).
Perkins, Bradford. The First Rapprochement: England and the
United States, 1795-1805. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania
Press, 1955. 257 pp. (Reprinted 1967 by Univ. of California Press).
-----. Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812.
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1961. 457 pp.
Perry, Hamilton D. The Panay Incident: Prelude to Pearl Harbor.
New York: Macmillan, 1969. 295 pp.
Reckner, James. Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 1988. 221 pp.
Rodgers, William L. "The Navy as an Aid in Carrying Out Diplomatic
Policies." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 55 (February
1929): 99-104.
Safford, Jeffrey J. Wilsonian Maritime Diplomacy, 1913-1921.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1978. 282 pp.
Statler, Oliver. The Black Ship Scroll: An Account of the Perry
Expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the Lively Beginnings of People-to-People
Relations Between Japan & America. 2d ed. Rutland, Vt.:
C. E. Tuttle, 1964. 80 pp.
Still, William N. American Sea Power in the Old World: The
United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917.
Contributions in Military History Series, No. 24. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood, 1980. 291 pp.
Sweetman, Jack. The Landing at Veracruz, 1914: The First Complete
Chronicle of a Strange Encounter in April, 1914, When the United
States Navy Captured and Occupied the City of Veracruz, Mexico.
Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1968. 221 pp.
Trask, David F. Captains & Cabinets: Anglo-American Naval
Relations, 1917-1918. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1972.
396 pp.
Tuleja, Thaddeus V. Statesmen and Admirals: Quest for a Far
Eastern Naval Policy. New York: Norton, 1963. 256 pp.
Utley, Jonathan G. Going to War With Japan, 1937-1941.
Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1985. 238 pp.
von Doenhoff, Richard A. "Biddle, Perry, and Japan."
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 92 (November 1966): 78-87.
Wheeler, Gerald E. Prelude to Pearl Harbor: The United States
Navy and the Far East, 1921-1931. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri
Press, 1963. 212 pp.
Wiley, Peter Booth. Yankees in the Land of the Gods: Commodore
Perry and the Opening of Japan. New York: Viking, 1990. 578
pp.
Yerxa, Donald A. Admirals and Empire: The United States Navy
and the Caribbean, 1898-1945. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina
Press, 1991. 202 pp.