![]() See more Encyclopedia articles on: Historians, U.S. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. The Navy’s designated delegate to the 1907 Hague Conference, Rear Admiral Charles Sperry, added his voice to Mahan’s arguments within the government. Mahan argued that radical technological change does not eliminate uncertainty from the conduct of war, and therefore a rigorous study of history should be the basis of naval officer education. Among his many works are biographies of David Farragut and Horatio Nelson and the autobiographical From Sail to Steam (1907, repr. Luce, who in theearly 1880's no longer accepted with equanimity the idea of a Navyaimlessly adrift. U. In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and other proponents of a big navy and overseas expansion were much influenced by Mahan's writings. In his aimless drifting, however, Mahan had managed to impress his in-tellectual capacity upon Rear Admiral Stephen B. His books were quickly translated into several languages and were widely read by political leaders, especially in Germany, where they were used as a justification for a naval buildup. Sea Power Mahan used history as a stock of lessons to be learned-or more exactly, as a pool of examples that exemplified his theories. His concept of 'sea power' was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact it was most famously presented in The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 16601783 (1890). ![]() Mahan's work appeared at a time when the nations of Europe and Japan were engaged in a fiercely competitive arms race. highlyinfluentialin both American and foreign circlesDocument Analysis:Mahan argued that British control of the seas, combined with acorresponding decline in. In these he argued that naval power was the key to success in international politics the nation that controlled the seas held the decisive factor in modern warfare. Mahan claimed that the possession of strategically placed colonies was vital. Out of his lectures grew his two major works on the historical significance of sea power- The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (2 vol., 1892). Alfred Thayer Mahans theories of naval strategy were a major cause of imperialism. A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on naval history and strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., of which he was president (1886–89, 1892–93).
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