| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American men and goods in American-made ships moved out over Alfred Thayer Mahan's "broad common," the sea, to extend the country's commerce, power, political influence, and culture. Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, Lt. John "Mad Jack" Percival, and Comm. Matthew Calbraith Perry are among some of the colorful names that many will recognize. They are all gone now, these strong men and their stout ships, who carried their country's colors up to the Northern Lights, down to the Antarctic's stillness, over the cutting coral, across the Roaring Forties, and into the great ports and the backwaters of the world. The results of their adventures, however, are not forgotten, but instead set the stage for America to indisputably become the dominant world power of the past century. |
| Note |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 18, 2016). |
| Contents |
The Ruinous Folly of a Navy"" ; Lands Below the Horn ; Sandalwood Bonanza; The USS Potomac and the Pepper Pirates; Profit and Adventure in Paraguay ; Matthew Perry and the African Squadron ; The RInggold Incident: A Matter of Judgment; Come, Papillangi, Our Fires Are Lighted; The Queen Who Never Reigned; The Pirate Ship Forward; Showing the Flag in the Indian Ocean ; Peary and the Meteorites; Four Fighting Ladies; The Fellowship of the Craft; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- History, Naval.
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United States. |
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Naval history. |
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HISTORY -- Military -- Naval. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: America Spreads Her Sails. New York : Naval Institute Press, 2015 9781612519777 (OCoLC)908398252 |
| ISBN |
9781612519777 (electronic book) |
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1612519776 (electronic book) |
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1591142121 |
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9781591142126 |
| Music No. |
EB00649774 Recorded Books |
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