Sea Power in American History: The Influence of the Navy and the Merchant Marine Upon American Development (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 28 փտվ, 2018 թ. - 414 էջ Excerpt from Sea Power in American History: The Influence of the Navy and the Merchant Marine Upon American Development The greater need, however, in a history of sea power for the average reader, is to connect the sea and the naval and commercial contests which have been waged upon its waters, with the political and military movements with which they were contemporary. The authors have there fore consistently tried to keep before the reader some idea of what was going on upon the land while military and commercial navies were active upon the ocean highways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
