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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

by A. T. Mahan

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Preface
7:34
Introductory
59:02
Chapter 1 Part 1
43:35
Chapter 1 Part 2
39:52
Chapter 1 Part 3
40:28
Chapter 1 Part 4
37:07
Chapter 2 Part 1
42:56
Chapter 2 Part 2
46:35
Chapter 2 Part 3
29:15
Chapter 3 Part 1
42:36
Chapter 3 Part 2
39:19
Chapter 4
61:46
Chapter 5
69:37
Chapter 6
53:37
Chapter 7 Part 1
33:23
Chapter 7 Part 2
30:56
Chapter 8 Part 1
39:31
Chapter 8 Part 2
36:50
Chapter 8 Part 3
46:16
Chapter 9 Part 1
41:41
Chapter 9 Part 2
29:20
Chapter 10 Part 1
41:45
Chapter 10 Part 2
61:20
Chapter 11
42:13
Chapter 12 Part 1
53:43
Chapter 12 Part 2
54:51
Chapter 13 Part 1
40:57
Chapter 13 Part 2
44:47
Chapter 14 Part 1
41:20
Chapter 14 Part 2
50:33

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Sea control, Alfred Thayer Mahan argued, is what decides the fate of nations. Working through the wars fought between Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands from 1660 to 1783, he sets out the conditions that make a country a naval power (geography, population, government policy, national character) and then reads the battles as evidence. Britain won, in his telling, not with armies but with fleets that strangled its rivals' trade. The lectures behind the book were written for the US Naval War College, and their effect was enormous: Theodore Roosevelt, the German Kaiser, and the Japanese admiralty all took the lesson to heart, and the battleship race that followed helped set the stage for 1914. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

About the author

A. T. Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer and historian who taught at the Naval War College in Newport. His writing on sea power shaped strategic thinking in the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan, making him the most influential military theorist of his generation.