PUBLISHED WORKS
1883. “The Gulf and Inland Waters.”
1890. “The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783.”
1892. “The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812.” Two volumes.
“The Life of Admiral Farragut.”
1897. “The Life of Nelson: the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain.” Two volumes.
“The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future.”
1899. “Lessons of the War with Spain.”
1900. “The Problem of Asia, and its Effect upon International Policies.”
“The Story of the War with South Africa, 1899–1900.”
1901. “Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy.”
1902. “Retrospect and Prospect: Studies in International Relations, Naval and Political.”
1905. “Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812.” Two volumes.
1907. “Some Neglected Aspects of War.”
“From Sail to Steam: Recollections of a Naval Life.”
1908. “Naval Administration and Warfare.”
1909. “The Harvest Within: Thoughts on the Life of a Christian.”
1910. “The Interest of America in International Conditions.”
1911. “Naval Strategy, Compared and Contrasted with the Principles and Practice of Military Operations on Land.”
1912. “Armaments and Arbitration: the Place of Force in International Relations.”
1913. “The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence.”
Uncollected Essays
“Reflections, Historical and Other, Suggested by the Battle of the Sea of Japan,” U. S. Naval Institute, June, 1906; Reprinted in Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, November, 1906.
“The Battleship of All Big Guns,” World’s Work, January, 1911.
“Misrepresenting Mr. Roosevelt,” Outlook, June 17, 1911.
“Importance of Command of the Sea,” Scientific American, December 9, 1911.
“Was Panama a Chapter of National Dishonor?” North American Review, October, 1912.
“Japan among Nations,” Living Age, August 2, 1913.
“Twentieth Century Christianity,” North American Review, April, 1914.
“Macdonough at Plattsburg,” North American Review, August, 1914.
“The Panama Canal and the Distribution of the Fleet,” North American Review, September, 1914.
REFERENCES
There is at present no printed source for the life of Mahan except his autobiographical record “From Sail to Steam,” which is confined almost entirely to the period preceding his retirement in 1896. Aside from book reviews, the more important critical essays and tributes are as follows:
“Mahan’s Counsels to the United States,” G. S. Clarke, Nineteenth Century, Review, February, 1898.
“Mahan on Sea Power,” S. G. W. Benjamin, New York Times Book Review, January 18, 1902.
“La Maîtrise de la Mer,” Auguste Moireau, Revue des Deux Mondes, October, 1902.
“Some American Historians,” Professor H. Morse Stephens, World’s Work, July, 1902.
“Lee at Appomattox and Other Papers,” Charles Francis Adams, 1903, p. 356 ff.
“The Writings of Mahan,” New York Nation, December 10, 1914.
“A Great Public Servant,” Theodore Roosevelt, Outlook, January 13, 1915. See also Outlook, December 9, 1914.
“Alfred Thayer Mahan—In Memoriam,” United States Naval Institute, January–February, 1915.
“The Influence of America’s Greatest Naval Strategist on the War in Europe,” Current Opinion, February, 1915. (Taken from Paris Figaro.)
“Naval History: Mahan and his Successors,” Military Historian and Economist, January, 1918.