Provides a history of fighting ships and major players in world naval operations, from the navies of Great Britain in the late 1800s to the post Cold War vessels used in the Gulf War.

Reproduced from the wartime editions of Jane's All the World's Ships.

All the greatest battleships from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.

The author, a naval historian, reveals the critical elements that determined the war at sea.

An expanded edition of the Public Culture special issue, which explores current meanings and contestations of citizenship in relation to the urban experience.