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To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire

by Jason W. Smith

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like “sea power” derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the sto

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

280

ISBN

9781469659220