Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1829-1861

(Book #48 in the Contributions in Military History Series)

by John H. Schroeder

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John H. Schroeder chronicles the expansion of the American Navy's peacetime role in developing the nation's overseas commercial empire during the thirty years before the Civil War. He demonstrates how the rapid acceleration of American commercial activity around the world increased pressure on the Navy to meet new economic and political demands. He analyzes how the Navy's haphazard development in the antebellum years paralleled and interacted with...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0313248834

ISBN13:9780313248832

Release Date:November 1985

Publisher:Praeger

Length:242 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Shaping a Maritime Empire: The Commercial and Diplomatic Role of the American Navy, 1829-1861

(Book #48 in the Contributions in Military History Series)

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