Название: With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Автор: Brian Rouleau
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801452333
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America.