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A landmark volume spanning from Native American and Viking activity to present day
maritime America. Heavily illustrated with paintings, photographs, drawings and maps.
Part 1: Becoming America, to 1815
The Beginnings
The Rise of English America, 1660-1760
To American Independence
Maritime Dimensions of Revolution and Confederation
Maritime Affairs in the New Republic
Embargo and War
Part 2: The Expanding Nation, 1815-1865
Maritime Developments in an
Age of Optimism
Maritime America in a Wider World
Modern Technology, Modern Warfare, and the Troubled Course of American Maritime and Naval Enterprise
Part 3: Rise to World Power, 1865-1939
The Sea and Post Civil War America
The Rise of Maritime Professionalism and Regulation
Expansion Transformation of Maritime America
World War I
The Interwar Years
Part 4: World War II & After, 1939-
World War II
American Maritime and Naval Policy Since World War II
Americans Take to the Sea
680 pp., hardcover
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