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MAHAN, ALFRED THAYER (1840- ) , American naval officer and historian, was born on the 27th of September 1840 at West Point, New York
commander
commander
Mexico , the South Atlantic, the Pacific, and Asia, and did shore duty at Boston, New York
Newport, Rhode Island. Between 1889 and 1892 he was engaged in special
series of volumes by various writers, entitled The Navy in the Civil War; in 1890 he suddenly acquired fame by the appearance of his masterly work entitled The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 166o-1783. Having been impressed by the failure of historians to allow for the influence of sea power in struggles between nations, he was led to make prolonged investigations of this general theme (see SEA POWER). The reception accorded the volume was instant and hearty; in England, in particular, it was deemed almost an epoch-making work, and was studied by naval specialists, cabinet ministers and journalists, as well as by a large part of the general public. It was followed by The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire (2 vols. 1892); The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (1897) ; and Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 (19o5). The author's general aim in these workssome of which have been translated into French, German and Japanesewas to make the consideration of maritime matters paramount to that of military, political or economic movements, without, however, as he himself says " divorcing them from their surroundings of cause and effect in general history, but seeking to show how they modified the latter, and were modified by them." He selected the year 166o as the beginning of his narrative, as being the date when the sailing-ship era, with its distinctive features, had fairly begun." The series as a whole has been accepted as finally authoritative, sup-planting its predecessors of similar aim, and almostin the words of Theodore Rooseveltfounding a new school of naval historical writing.Other works by Mahan are a Life of Admiral Farragut (1892) ; The Interest
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