.... The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that, during the period 1835-1845, the role of her navy was vital to the achievement and maintenance of the independence of the Republic of Texas, a fact normally overlooked by most historians who have concerned themselves with the Texas story. Hill clearly makes his...

.... The First Complete Chronicle of a Strange Encounter in April, 1914, When the United States Navy Captured and Occupied the City of Veracruz, Mexico . By Sweetman Jack . Annapolis , 1968 . United States Naval Institute . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 221...

...William L. Neumann In Defense of Neutral Rights. The United States Navy and the Wars of Independence in Chile and Peru . By Billingsley Edward Baxter . Chapel Hill , 1967 . University of North Carolina Press . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 8 , 266 . $6.00 . Copyright...

... the context of Atlantic slavery (p. 9). However, in view of this assertion, recent works on slavery in Brazil and its ties with the Atlantic world should have been included. Most of his references to this field do not go beyond the 1990s. Additionally, while several pages are dedicated to comparing the navy...

...John P. Harrison The Journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822-1863), United States Navy . Edited by Peterson Mendel L. . Washington, D. C. , 1959 . Smithsonian Institution . Illustrations . Pp. 268 . Paper. Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 ...

...Donald E. Worcester The Navy and South America, 1807-1823. Correspondence of the Commanders-in-Chief on the South American Station . Ed. by Graham Gerald S. and Humphreys R. A. . London , 1962 . Publications of the Navy Record Society , vol. CIV . Maps. Index . Pp. xxxiv...

...Roland Dennis Hussey Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 Queen Anne’s Navy in the West Indies . By Bourne Ruth . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1939 . Pp. viii , [1], 334 . Bibliography; index; map. $3.00 .) ...

...Lester D. Langley Admirals and Empire: The United States Navy and the Caribbean, 1898-1945 . By Yerxa Donald A. . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1991 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography . 202 pp. Cloth . $34.95 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992...

...Emily Rosenberg Gunboat Diplomacy in the Wilson Era: The U.S. Navy in Haiti, 1915-1916 . By Healy David . Madison , 1976 . The University of Wisconsin Press . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 268 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press...

... and understands his subjects and at the same time respects the intellect and taste of his readers. Chester L. Guthrie. U. S. Navy Department, Washington, D. C. La Calle de San Francisco. By Jose Cornejo Franco. (Guadalajara: Artes Graficas Nacionales, 1945. Pp. 218. Paper.) This story of the street which extended...

... and as history the most valuable parts are not those compiled and digested by the author, but are the long passages quoted from his sources. Chester L. Guthrie. U. S. Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Leona Vicario, la mujer fuerte de la independenda. By C. A. Echanove Trujillo.[ Vidas mexicanas, 21.] (Mexico...

.... The Chilean navy was historically significant throughout the national period. Naval power played a prime role in securing independence, in maintaining Chile’s dominant position on the Pacific coast at the expense of Peru and Bolivia, and in providing for the defense of Chile’s far-flung frontiers to the north...

... “Cartagena's tangible American connection,” a connection that effectively represented a lifeline for independent Cartagena (p. 56). Writing the history of independent Cartagena's navy required building a naval archive out of a multiplicity of archives. Archival research in more than a dozen archives in six...

... and esprit de corps of its officers and men. They possessed something Spain’s seamen lacked. The story is not one, however, of unending futility and despair. From the 1720s onward, the administration of the Spanish navy was marked by innovation, imitation (of English and French models), and recovery from...

.... Journalist Marli Cristina Scomazzon and coauthor Jeff Franco make a significant contribution to this critical and volatile period in Brazilian political and economic history. Their book, Primeira circum-navegação brasileira e primeira missão do Brasil à China (1879) , details the Brazilian Navy's first trip...