With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire by Brian Rouleau

With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire

United States in the World

Brian Rouleau

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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