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1 online resource ( ix, 378 pages) : illustrations.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2024]