Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 /
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Algora Pub.,
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies
- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex
- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889
- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat
- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser
- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire
- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War
- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it
- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff?
- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too
- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902
- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy?
- Appendix A: The Great White Fleet
- Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet
- Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US business
- World War, 1917-1918 : fighting the Germans and the allies : President Wilson's surge that worked
- Naval disarmament, 1921 : Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 1921, the greatest naval battle of all time
- Appendix A: Battleships sunk by the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty
- British battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Japanese battleships sunk by the Washington Treaty; Great Britain : battleships after the Washington Treaty
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Explanation of naval comparison tables.