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Allen, Joseph A., ed. Memoir of the Life and Service of Admiral Sir William Hargood, 1772-1839: Compiled from Authentic Documents under the Direction of Lady Hargood. Greenwich: Richardson, 1841, 1861, xii, 296 pp. Included Trafalgar.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; memoir; personality; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, personality, prominent leader, noted person , Trafalgar, battle, campaign
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Allen, Kenneth S. "That Bounty Bastard": The True Story of Captain William Bligh. London: Hale; New York: St. Martin, 1976, 1977, 224 pp. Bligh, 1754-1817; on tombstone: "fought battles and died, beloved, respected, and lamented"; despite title, sympathetic toward Bligh; described outbursts & cursings.
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18th C. (1700-1799); Admiralty; Banks, Joseph; Bligh, William; condition; discipline; exploration; imperialism; law; mutiny; officer; Royal Navy;
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18th century, eighteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Bligh, William, mutiny, Bounty, Captain, Admiral , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , banks, joseph, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , law, Royal Navy, Britain, England, mutiny, insurrection, Bounty , officer, quarterdeck, leader , discipline
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Allen, Kenneth. Battle of the Atlantic. London: Wayland, 1973, 96 pp.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-German; anti-submarine warfare; Battle of the Atlantic; Royal Canadian Navy; Royal Navy; U-boat; World War II;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar , Royal Canadian Navy, Canada , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship , Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy
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Allen, Louis. Singapore, 1941-1942. The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War Series. London: Davis-Poynter; Newark: Delaware UP; London: Cass, 1977, 1979, 1992, 1994, 2003, xvii, 343 pp. Accurate interpretation of pivotal historic event.
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Admiralty; Anglo-Japanese; Churchill, Winston; critique of Royal Navy; Imperial Defence; Royal Navy; Singapore; strategy; World War II;
Keywords:
Anglo-Japanese, Japan , Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Churchill, Winston, First Lord, Prime Minister, War Minister , critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Singapore, campaign, battle, siege, naval base, commercial port, entrepot, disastrous surrender , strategy, strategic, world war 2, second world war, Imperial Defence, Committee of Imperial Defence
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Allen, Louis. "Studies in the Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia, 1942-1945." Durham University Journal, 64 (December 1971): 120-32. A supplement to Lord Mountbatten dispatches of 1951; among disclosures: divide Indo-China, post-war, at 16 degrees North.
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Anglo-Japanese; Cold War; diplomacy; Far East; Mountbatten, Louis; Singapore; strategy; World War II;
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Anglo-Japanese, Japan , cold war, diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Mountbatten, Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma , Singapore, campaign, battle, siege, naval base, commercial port, entrepot, disastrous surrender , strategy, strategic, world war 2, second world war
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Allen, Louis. "The Campaigns in Asia and the Pacific." J Stra Stu, 12 (March 1990): 162-92. In special issue: Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-Japanese; battles; Far East; World War II;
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Anglo-Japanese, Japan , battles, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, world war 2, second world war
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Allen, Louis. The End of the War in Asia. Brooklyn Heights: Beekman, 1976, 1979, xiii, 306 pp. Human & political consequences.
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Anglo-American; Anglo-Japanese; battles; Far East; World War II;
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Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, Anglo-Japanese, Japan , battles, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, world war 2, second world war
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Allen, Madelene Ferguson & Scadden, Ken. The General Grant's Gold: Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean. Auckland: Exisle, 2009, 192 pp. 1866, wreck, Prickland Island; included 2576 oz. of gold.
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19th C. (1800-1899); economics; nautical archaeology; ship; wreck;
Keywords:
19th century, nineteenth, economics, economic policy, nautical archaeology, wreck, archaeology, artefact, artifact, study report , wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , ship, boat, vessel
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Allen, Matthew. "Rear Admiral Reginald Custance: Director of Naval Ingtelligence, 1899-1902." MM, 78 (February 1992): 61-75. DNI, leader of "syndicate of discontent," opponents of later Fisher reforms.
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; architecture; battleship; critique of Royal Navy; First Sea Lord; Fisher, John; intelligence; personality; Royal Navy; strategy; tactics;
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20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, critique of Royal Navy, criticism, analysis, critical analysis, controversy, Fisher, John, First Sea Lord, reformer , First Sea Lord, professional head of Admiralty , battleship, battlecruiser, dreadnought, capital ship , architecture, shipbuilding, design, construction, structure, naval architect , personality, prominent leader, noted person , Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, tactics, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT
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Allen, Matthew. "The Employment of Untried Technology: British Naval Tactics in the Ironclad Era." War in History, 15 (July 2008): 269-93. Gun, ram, torpedo; gun prevailed.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; age of steam; gunnery; propulsion ; Royal Navy; shipbuilding; tactics; technology; torpedo; weapons;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of steam, gunnery, gun, weapon , propulsion , Royal Navy, Britain, England, shipbuilding, shipbuilder, shipbuilders, tactics, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, torpedo, underwater weapon, propelled weapon, weapon, arms trade
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Allen, Matthew. "The Origins, Conduct and Outcome of the British Naval Exercises of 1885." MM, 91 (August 2005): 421-35. From ironclad era; use of close blockade confirmed but two years later, in exercises, close blockade abandoned.
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19th C. (1800-1899); Admiralty; age of steam; blockade; propulsion ; Royal Navy; strategy; tactics; technology;
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19th century, nineteenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of steam, blockade, propulsion , Royal Navy, Britain, England, strategy, strategic, tactics, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation
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Allen, Paul C. Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000, xvi, 336 pp. Crucial moment in evolution of bid for hegemony; strategic overstretch & English succession.
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16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); Anglo-Spanish; Atlantic World; Colonial America; expansion; exploration; sea power; strategy; trade;
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16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , strategy, strategic, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, sea power
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Allen, Paul C. "Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy." Ph.D. diss, Yale, 1996. Under Geoffrey Parker.
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16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); Anglo-Spanish; Colonial America; expansion; exploration; imperialism; strategy; trade;
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16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , imperialism, colonialism, colonization, colonisation, colonial expansion, informal empire , strategy, strategic, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing
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Allen, Paula Gunn. Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2003, 2004, 366 pp. Popular history.
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Colonial America; diplomacy; enterprise; health; intelligence; Jamestown; naval lore; trade; woman;
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Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , Jamestown, colony, colony of Virginia, early settlement , intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , woman, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon
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Allen, Ralph. Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1961, ix, 492 pp. Canadian forces, e.g., Hong Kong & Dieppe, 19 August 1942; "a magnificent fiasco."
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20th C. (1900-1999); Admiralty; Battle of the Atlantic; Far East; Royal Canadian Navy; World War I; World War II;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy , Royal Canadian Navy, Canada , Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, world war 1, first world war, world war 2, second world war
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Allen, Richard C. "'Remember Me to My Good Friend Captain Walker': James Cook and the North Yorkshire Quakers." See G. Williams, Captain Cook, pp. 21-36.
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18th C. (1700-1799); age of sail; Cook, James; exploration; memoir; navigation; North Sea; Royal Navy; voyage;
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18th century, eighteenth, age of sail, Cook, James, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, Royal Navy, Britain, England, voyage, north sea
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Allen, Robert Stephenson. Wartime with Shell: The Autobiography of R.S. (Bob) Allen. Newcastle: Shield, 1996, 144 pp. Folio; ed: Norman Middlemiss; petroleum tankers.
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age of steam; company; memoir; oil ; ship; trade; World War II;
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age of steam, company, charter, shipping, commercial , oil , ship, boat, vessel, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, world war 2, second world war, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography
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Allen, Roland. "A Stag Stands on Ceremony: Evaluating Some of the Sutton Hoo Finds." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 79 (Autumn 1997): 167-75. Whetstone stag, the symbol of kingship; analysis of the artifacts from Anglo-Saxon era.
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anglo-saxon; Middle Ages (400-1399); nautical archaeology; naval lore; Sutton Hoo; Viking;
Keywords:
anglo-saxon, naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , Sutton Hoo, ship burial, archaeological site , nautical archaeology, wreck, archaeology, artefact, artifact, study report , middle ages (400-1399), Viking, Norse, Norseman, Northman
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Allen, Rosamund, ed. Eastward Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004, xv, 270 pp. 11 commissioned essays; medieval perceptions of geography; Muslim & Christian pilgrims, merchants, scholars; English, German, Spanish & Arab.
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cartography; exploration; Middle Ages (400-1399); religion; trade; voyage;
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cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , middle ages (400-1399), religion, chaplain, chapel , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, voyage
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Allen, Scott. "A Comparison of the Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty of 1922 and the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements of 1972." Ph.D. diss, Hawaii, 1976, 227 pp. (DAI 37/08, p. 5340).
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20th C. (1900-1999); diplomacy; disarmament; missile; nuclear ; strategy; weapons;
Keywords:
20th century, twentieth, disarmament, arms reduction, arms limitation, reduction of arms, treaty , diplomacy, treaty, foreign policy, Foreign Office, negotiation, international relations , missile, rocket, ballistic missile, nuclear , strategy, strategic, weapon, arms trade
| Abbreviations | |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Alb | Albion |
| alt | alternate |
| Am Nep | American Neptune |
| AQ & DJ | Army Quarterly and Defence Journal |
| ASLIB | Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses) |
| BIHR | Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research |
| Can His Rev | Canadian Historical Review |
| Can J His | Canadian Journal of History |
| comp | Compiled by |
| DAI | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| EcHR | Economic History Review |
| ed | editor or edited by |
| EnHR | English Historical Review |
| HisAHR | Hispanic American Historical Review |
| HJ | Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal) |
| His Res | Historical Research |
| His Tod | History Today |
| Intell & Nat Sec | Intelligence and National Security |
| IJ Mar His | International Journal of Maritime History |
| IJ Nau Arch | International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |
| IHR | International History Review |
| intro | introduction |
| J Am His | Journal of American History |
| J Asian His | Journal of Asian History |
| JBS | Journal of British Studies |
| J Cont His | Journal of Contemporary History |
| J Econ His | Journal of Economic History |
| JI & CH | Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |
| J Mar Res | Journal for Maritime Research |
| J Mil His | Journal of Military History |
| J Mod His | Journal of Modern History |
| JRUSI | Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute |
| J Soc His | Journal of Social History |
| JSAHR | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| J Stra Stu | Journal of Strategic Studies |
| J Trans His | Journal of Transport History |
| J Wor His | Journal of World History |
| MM | Mariner's Mirror |
| Mil Aff | Military Affairs |
| NHS | Naval History Symposium (USNA) |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| Nav Rev | Naval Review |
| NWCR | Naval War College Review (US) |
| Nel Dis | Nelson Dispatch |
| NIP | Naval Institute Press |
| Nor Mar | Northern Mariner |
| Pac His Rev | Pacific Historical Review |
| P & P | Past and Present |
| Traf Chron | Trafalgar Chronicle |
| trans | translated by |
| UP | University Press |
| USNIP | Proceedings of the Naval Institute |
| Vic Stu | Victorian Studies |
| War & Soc | War and Society |
| War in His | War in History |
| W&MQ | William and Mary Quarterly |
| WSS | World Ship Society |