About the Book
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT - OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price This manuscript is a compilation of essays, derived from selected presentations during the 2009 Naval History Symposium. These essays were nominated by the respective panel chairs, and represent both the diversity and superb degree of scholarship in naval and maritime history. Some of the essays and topics would be appropriate for classroom use for military history.This book offers a broad examination of selected topics in naval and maritime history by both established and new scholars.
Other published U.S. Federal agency works based on symposium materials:
Early Cold War Overflights, 1950-1956: Symposium Proceedings, Held at the Tighe Auditorium, Defense Intelligence Agency, 22-23 February 2001, V. 1: Memoirs; V. 2, Appendices is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/041-015-00227-9
Confronting Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-055-00250-8
Coalition Air Warfare in the Korean War, 1950 1953: Proceedings Air Force Historical Foundation Symposium, Andrews AFB, Maryland May 7-8. 2002 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00802-5
The Office of Scientific Intelligence: The Original Wizards of Langley: A Symposium Commemorating 60 Years of S&T Intelligence Analysis (Book and DVD) is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/041-015-00305-4
Silver Wings, Golden Valor: The USAF Remembers Korea is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00803-3
Security Assistance, U.S. and International Historical Perspectives is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00453-4
Ronald Reagan, Intelligence and the End of the Cold War: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, November 2, 2011 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/041-015-00276-7
Terrorism Research and Analysis Project (TRAP): A Collection of Research Ideas, Thoughts, and Perspectives, V. 1 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/027-001-00097-1
Counterinsurgency Leadership in Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-046-00274-6
The Iranian Puzzle Piece: Understanding Iran In The Global Context is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01591-1
Are We Prepared?: Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-020-01588-1
Providing the Means of War: Historical Perspectives on Defense Acquisition, 1945-2000 is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00414-3
Al-Qaida After Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospects is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-055-00248-6"
About the Author :
The Naval War College Press, at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, publishes the quarterly "Naval War College Review, " the Newport Papers monograph series, and books of interest of the naval and maritime communities."Dr. Robert G. Angevine" is the author of "The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in 19th-century America" (2004) and articles on military approaches to technology, naval experimentation, and American military and naval intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in military history from Duke University in 1999 and currently works as a defense analyst in the Washington area. He has taught at Duke, American, and George Mason Universities and now serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University."Dr. Michael Barrett" is a professor of history at The Citadel, teaching courses on World War I, modern Germany, and geography among others. A graduate of The Citadel, he did his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts where he was a Fulbright Scholar (Germany). He is the author of "Operation Albion. The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands" (Indiana), and "Clausewitz Revisited "(Praeger-ABC Clio), co-authored with H.P. Willmott. He is a retired brigadier general in the US Army Reserve."Laurence M. Burke, II," is a PhD candidate in History and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lay in the history of technology and military history. He was awarded the Ramsey Fellowship in Naval Aviation History (National Air and Space Museum) and the General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr, Memorial Dissertation Fellowship (United States Marine Corps) in 2008, both of which have greatly assisted his research. This paper is drawn from his dissertation, whose working title is, What to Do With the Airplane?: Determining the Role of the Airplane in the US Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, 1908-1930. "Dr. Kenneth P. Hansen," Commander, Canadian Navy (ret.), is the Visiting Defence Fellow in the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, where he is the Director of the Maritime Security in the 21st Century Project and Deputy Director for the centre s Maritime Studies Programme. His research interests include concept development, operations planning, and logistical sustainment. His 32-year naval career included a variety of positions in several ships of the Canadian Atlantic Fleet, a number of senior operations and staff appointments, and the Military Co-Chair of the Maritime Studies Programme at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto."Dr. John T. Kuehn" is a former naval aviator (EP-3/ES-3) who has completed cruises aboard four different aircraft carriers. He flew EP-3 missions during the last decade of the Cold War, the First Gulf War (Desert Storm) and the Balkans (Deliberate Force over Bosnia). CDR Kuehn has served on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College since July 2000, retiring from the naval service in 2004. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University in 2007. He is the author of the "Agents of Innovation" and "Eyewitness Pacific Theater" with Dennis Giangreco."Dr. Christopher P. Magra" is Assistant Professor of Early American history and Director of the Atlantic History Center at the California State University at Northridge. He has published articles related to maritime history in the "International Journal of Maritime History," the "New England Quarterly," and the "Northern Mariner." The Canadian Nautical Research Society honored him with the Keith Matthews Award for his scholarship. Cambridge University Press published his first book "The Fisherman s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution" in 2009. He has already begun research on his second book, a comparative analysis of British naval impressment in the Atlantic World."Dr. Heather Pace Marshall" received Ph.D. from duke University. The daughter and wife of Marines, she has always been fascinated in understanding the origins of and developments in the Marine Corps institutional culture. Her dissertation explores changes in the Corps image and identity from the Civil War to World War I."Dr. John Darrell Sherwood" is historian with the Naval History & Command, and the author of five books in military and naval history, including "Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972" (2009), "Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era" (2007), and "Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War" (2004). Sherwood holds a Ph.D. in military history from The George Washington University, and is currently working on a history of U.S. Navy coastal and riverine operations during the Vietnam War."Dr. Andrew Stewart" studied for his doctorate in the Department of War Studies, King s College London and was awarded his PhD in December 2001. The following year he joined the Defence Studies Department, King s College London based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. His research examines various issues connected to the British Empire and the Second World War. His book "Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second World War" was published in September 2008 by Continuum and his next project is centred on the British Commonwealth military effort in East Africa during the Second World War."Dr. Bruce Taylor" was born in Chile in 1967 and educated at the University of Manchester and at Oxford where he received a D.Phil. in Modern History in 1996. He is author of "The Battlecruiser HMS Hood: An Illustrated Biography, 1916 1941" (2005) and together with Daniel Morgan is completing "Annals of the Wolves: U-Boat Sinkings of Allied Warships as Recorded in German Logs." He lives in Southern California."Dr. Kathleen Broome Williams" is the Director of General Education and professor of history at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California. Her published work includes "Secret Weapon: U.S. High-frequency Direction Finding in the Battle of the Atlantic" (Naval Institute Press, 1996), "Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II," (Naval Institute Press, 2001), and "Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea" (Naval Institute Press, 2004), as well as articles and book chapters on naval science and technology. She serves on the board of trustees of the Society for Military History and the advisory board of H-Maritime."Dr. Carlos Alfaro Zaforteza" was born in Spain in 1957. After a career in the building industry he graduated in War Studies from King s College London. He is presently finishing his PhD and teaching naval history at that institution. His main interests are Spanish naval policy, international naval history and the role of medium/small navies in the nineteenth century. He has published in British, American and Spanish journals, including War in History, Warship International and Revista de Historia Naval."Captain Craig C. Felker" graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1981. A naval aviator and helicopter pilot, he served in a variety of operational and staff assignments, the most notable of which included Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991, and as the director of the President s Emergency Operations Center in the White House from 1995 to 1997. While serving as an instructor in history at the Naval Academy, Commander Felker was selected for the Naval Academy s Permanent Military Professorship Program. He received his Ph.D. from Duke in May 2004, and returned to the Academy the following June. In February 2007 Texas A&M University Press published his book, "Testing American Sea Power: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940," which examined the ways in which warfare simulation tested the Navy s Mahanian vision, and provided a means of adapting the vision to include new technologies. Captain Felker was the director of the 2009 Naval History Symposium."
Review :
Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 2012) issue of "International Journal of Maritime History"Book review for printed edition:
Craig C. Felker and Marcus O. Jones (eds.), "New Interpretations in Naval History. Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Naval History Symposium
Held at the United States Naval Academy 10-11 September 2009." Newport, RI: Naval War College Press [www.nwc.navy.mil/press], xxiii+ 166 pp., notes.
US $32 (International Price, $44.80) paper, ISBN 978-1-884733-91-8.
The USNaval Academy's Naval History Symposium, held regularly during the last forty-one years "continues, " inthe words of John Hattendorf, " to be one of the most important events
for the scholarly exchange of ideas on naval history [serving] this purpose not only in the United States for America naval history but in the world at large for global naval history." The published
volumes of selected papers capture the essence and growth of the syposium over the last four decades: "New Interpretations in Naval History"is now the well-established title of most of them.
They are sterling witnesses to the Naval Academy's desire to encourage curiosity-based historical research rather than command-oriented current topical or thematic research. This volume
from the sixteenth symposium maintains and adds to the transition established by its predecesors. The editors have selected twelve papers from over seventy that were presented during
the two-day program that is appended to the volume's preface. The papers, which in the editors' "words" offer but a brief glimpse of the diversity and energy of the naval and maritime community."
range over American, Spanish, Austrian, British, and Canadian navies from the period of the American War of Independence in Vietnam. Several papers caught this reviewer's attention.
Christopher P. Magra's study of colonial resistance to British naaval impresment during the American revolutionary era continues to eleborate and reinforce an argument first developed
several decades ago, that land historians overlook at their peril the maritime dimensions of the US War of Independence. His paper argues that naval impressment was an important grievance
that helped fuel the colonial rebellion. Michael Barrett's narrative of the riverine operations of the Austrian navy's Danube flotilla during the 1916 Roman campaign makes for interesting
reading, but a map of the area would have been of inestimable value. The Romanian declaration of war against the Central Powers have cuaght the Austrians off guard. The Austro-
German army's successful repulse of the Romanian attacks was greatly aided by the Austiran rivver flotilla. He shows that riverine naval warfare may be a vital to success as seaborne
operations. Bruce Taylor's paper continues his fine study of British naval communities afloat presented in his illustrtion biography of HMS "Hood." He discusses how studying attitudes
and values of issue of the navy as an effective force for the defence of national security. His throughtful paper addresses and challenges historians who want to get at the human condition
of life afloat when faced with the likelihood of achieving only partial success. Challenges to overheated historical explanations are the subject of John T. Kuehn's approach to the
sinking of the German dreadnought "Ostfriesland" in Chesapeake Bay after the First World War by US Army Air Corps bombers. He examines how the General Board of the US Navy reacted
to ship data collected by representatives of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. He concludes that, far from the death of the battleship as trumpeted by General Billy Mitchell, the data led tocritically important changes in battleship construciton, increased watertight security and anti-aircraft defences that served the navy well during the Second World War. Ken Hansen and
Kathleen Broome Williams tell contrasting stories on unknown aspects of the Bttle of the Atlantic: ecort oilers and acoustic torpedoes. Read together, these papers contain lessons about the
ambiguities and challenges of Allied collaboration. Cooperation was never easy and sometimes downright impossible, and Hansen reveals much about the small Canadian navy's
reliance upon questionable Admiralty guidance in the face of succesful USN logistical operations.
This slim volume has much to recommend it to a wide audience. Its broad scope. absence of jargon, and reasonable price make it accessible to both specialits and generalists. The
extensive notes accompanying each article serve in lieu of a bibliography. Readers may dip into the book at leisure for entertainment and enlightenment. While some papers are by
leading scholars in their fields, others are by young historians setting out on a longer journey; together they present the present and future of naval history.
James Pritchard Kingston, ON, Canada "
