With Sails Whitening Every Sea : Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire /
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 ambit...
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London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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