Sea power and the American interest : from the Civil War to the Great War / John Fass Morton.
| Author/creator | Morton, John Fass, 1947- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | ix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Setting the Course -- Part I. An Industrial Republic in Pursuit of Expansion and Sea Power -- Chapter 1. The Wartime Arrival of National Systems: Railroads, Communications, and Banking -- The Antebellum Navy Charts a Course for Informal Empire -- Steel Becomes the Sinew for Rail and Sea Power -- The Hemispheric American System: From Railroad Development to Financial Protectorates -- Investment Empire: The Emerging American Interest -- The Promise of an American Pacific System -- The American Interest in China: Beneficent, but Premature -- Part II. The Navy and the Progressive Institutions of the American Century -- Progressive Institutionalization of the Financial Element of National Power -- Progressivism: The Pragmatic Ideology of the Industrial Republic -- The Arrival of America's Oil Sinews and the Petroleum Interest -- The Navy and the Pacific Fuel -- Mexican Oil Becomes a Major Security Interest -- From Respectable Defense to Preparedness for War: Toward a Peacetime Standing Army -- In Search of a Twentieth-Century U.S. Naval Policy -- A General Policy of National Defense -- Part III. Internecine European War and the Arrival of America's Navy Second to None -- The American Interest on the Eve of the Great War -- British Commerce Warfare Co-opts American Neutrality -- The Naval Policy Shortcoming: The U.S. Merchant Marine Sea Power Disconnect -- The Progressive Embrace of Sea Power -- Progressive Adoption of a Navy Second to None -- Epilogue. Ex Scientia Tridens. |
| Abstract | "This volume answers the question "why did the United States become a naval power?" Combining economic and political history, John Fass Morton looks at the movements, events, and processes that strengthened the nation's seagoing fighting force, with an emphasis on the years between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Morton, John Fass. Sea power and the American interest Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2024] 9781682479124 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023045983 |
| ISBN | 9781682479117 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1682479110 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | E182 .M877 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |