American naval history : a guide / Paolo E. Coletta.

Rev. edition of: A selected and annotated bibliography of American naval history. c1988.

Includes indexes.

1. Bibliographic Aids and Reference Sources -- 2. Concepts and Definitions -- 3. Ships, Colonies, and Wars, 1689-1776 -- 4. Sea Power in the Revolutionary War -- 5. A Chip on the European War Table, 1783-1815 -- 6. The U.S. Navy at Peace and War, 1815-1861 -- 7. Naval Power in the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- 8. The Post-Civil War Denouement and the Rise of the New Navy, 1865-1898 -- 9. The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion -- 10. The U.S. Navy Comes of Age, 1898-1914 -- 11. Naval Power and World War I: Europe, 1914-1917 -- 12. The U.S. Navy in World War I, 1917-1919 -- 13. Naval Disarmament and Rearmament, 1918-1941 -- 14. The Coming of World War II -- 15. World War II in Atlantic Waters, September 1939-December 1941 -- 16. The U.S. Navy in World War II: Atlantic Theater -- 17. The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part I, From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal --

18. The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part II, The Campaign against Rabaul -- 19. The U.S. Navy in World War II: Pacific Theater. Part III, The Dual Advance and End of the Japanese Empire -- 20. The Cold War and American Defense Reorganization, 1945-1950 -- 21. Korea and Continued Communist Containment, 1950-1961 -- 22. Kennedy, Johnson, and Sea Power in the 1960s and 1970s -- 23. The Challenge of the Soviet Navy, and the U.S. Navy's Forward Maritime Strategy -- 24. Sea Power for the 1980s -- 25. Reagan and the Rearming of America -- 26. Reagan and Nuclear Weapons: START, SDI, and SALT without SALT -- 27. To Russia with Love: The Bush Administration and the First Term of William Clinton -- Special Topics.