To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire Smith Jason W.
To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire Smith Jason W. As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like…
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To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire Smith Jason W.
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. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W.
In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context.By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S.
Navy and the United States at sea,