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Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville, Chief Engineer of the Navy, as to the Strategic and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal. the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States by : George Wallace Melville
Download or read book Views of Commodore George W. Melville, Chief Engineer of the Navy, as to the Strategic and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal. the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States written by George Wallace Melville and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville by : George W. Melville
Download or read book Views of Commodore George W. Melville written by George W. Melville and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Views of Commodore George W. Melville: Chief Engineer of the Navy On the land rails of steel traversing valley, plain, and mountain make easy the path of the flying express and the fast freight, which together conquor time and distance in the binding into a homogeneous whole of the many States which form a Republic almost continental in extent; but the railroad is fixed, a permanent way, whose direction varies only with new constructions. The sea, on the contrary, gives a track-fluid, mobile, universal - which turns wherever swift prows may point, and on which massive hulls, much too huge for any form of land transit, may pass with ease from port to port. Moreover, when in 1805 - nine years after Washington wrote of America's "distant situation" - Nelson "chased half around the world a French fleet nearly twice the force of his own, scared by the very terror of his name," his fierce ardor fretted itself to fury with his ships, which through a run of 7, 000 miles of sea averaged but 93 miles a day, or less than 4 knots an hour. "Salt beef and the French fleet are better than roast beef and champagne without it," said the great Admiral in beginning his stern chase. He found that fleet, and with it death; but in the finding, through those lagging months, while drifting or beating over those leagues of sea, he must have felt to the full the limits which stinted the sea power of his time. Steam has changed all this. Over the same western ocean which Nelson, bitterly impatient, crossed and recrossed so slowly in 1805, the United States cruiser Columbia swept, ninety years later, at a speed of 18.41 knots per hour, or four and three-quarter times that of the ships which, dull sailers though they may have been, were very sure and deadly in their work at Trafalgar. This passage, in its sustained speed through such a distance, was not only a triumph, yet unequaled, for American naval engineering - it was as well a flashing illumination of the strategic fact that America's isolation, militarily, from European and Asian nations had diminished in this age in most marked degree. While it is not yet possible for the performance of the swift Columbia to be equaled in a trans-Atlantic run by armored battle ships, it seems quite certain that Nelsons speed can be increased nearly threefold, and that at this increased speed and within two weeks a European fleet of any required strength could be thrown upon our Atlantic coasts with one-third of its coal supply remaining. The geographic isolation, apparent or real, of any people has never yet been respected by superior forces. It forms no sure guard when, in peace or war, the nations of the earth come knocking at the door. Ancient Peru - peaceful, rich, unwarlike - was many leagues from Spain, and between them the waves of two oceans rolled. Yet there came Pizarro and his adventurers, soldiers less of Spain than of the lust of gold. The Inca fell, and the land was stripped of its fatal wealth; its people were enslaved, and in slaughter, torture, and rapine a noble civilization perished. In later times, China, arrogant and ignorant, learned, in a measure, the same lesson. While her officials babbled of invading England overland through Russia, the war of 1840 was waged against her by the people of that small island, parted from her by a hemisphere; and that war wrested Hongkong from her shore line, seized in indemnity $21, 000, 000 from her treasury, and by force opened five of her ports to the commerce of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville, as to the Strategie and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan CA by : George Wallace Melville
Download or read book Views of Commodore George W. Melville, as to the Strategie and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan CA written by George Wallace Melville and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville, as to the Strategie and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States by : George Wallace Melville
Download or read book Views of Commodore George W. Melville, as to the Strategie and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States written by George Wallace Melville and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville ... as to the Strategic and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States by : George Wallace Melville
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Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville as to the Strategic and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the Future of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii and Its Annexation to the United States by : George W. Melville
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Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville, as to the Strategie and Commercial Value of the Nicaraguan Canal, the Future Control of the Pacific Ocean, the Strategic Value of Hawaii, and Its Annexation to the United States by : George Wallace Melville
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Book Synopsis Views of Commodore George W. Melville ... as to the strategic and commercial value of the Nicaraguan canal, the future control of the Pacific ocean, the strategic value of Hawaii, and its annexation to the United States by : George Wallace Melville
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Book Synopsis Coal and Empire by : Peter A. Shulman
Download or read book Coal and Empire written by Peter A. Shulman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security. Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the nineteenth century: the age of coal. Coal and Empire insightfully weaves together pivotal moments in the history of science and technology by linking coal and steam to the realms of foreign relations, navy logistics, and American politics. Long before oil, coal allowed Americans to rethink the place of the United States in the world. Shulman explores how the development of coal-fired oceangoing steam power in the 1840s created new questions, opportunities, and problems for U.S. foreign relations and naval strategy. The search for coal, for example, helped take Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan in the 1850s. It facilitated Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of black colonization in 1860s Panama. After the Civil War, it led Americans to debate whether a need for coaling stations required the construction of a global empire. Until 1898, however, Americans preferred to answer the questions posed by coal with new technologies rather than new territories. Afterward, the establishment of America's string of island outposts created an entirely different demand for coal to secure the country's new colonial borders, a process that paved the way for how Americans incorporated oil into their strategic thought. By exploring how the security dimensions of energy were not intrinsically linked to a particular source of power but rather to political choices about America's role in the world, Shulman ultimately suggests that contemporary global struggles over energy will never disappear, even if oil is someday displaced by alternative sources of power.
Book Synopsis The Humboldt Current by : Aaron Sachs
Download or read book The Humboldt Current written by Aaron Sachs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorers—J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muir—who embraced Humboldt's idea of a "chain of connection" uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillful blend of narrative and interpretation that also discusses Humboldt's influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, and superbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history.
Book Synopsis Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents by :
Download or read book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oceanographic History by : Keith Rodney Benson
Download or read book Oceanographic History written by Keith Rodney Benson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a study of knowledge of the sea among indigenous cultures in the South Seas to inquiries into the subject of sea monsters, from studies of Pacific currents to descriptions of ocean-going research vessels, the sixty-three essays presented here reflect the scientific complexity and richness of social relationships that characterize ocean-ographic history. Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), the volume features an unusual breadth of contributions. Oceanography itself involves the full spectrum of physical, biological, and earth sciences in their formal, empirical, and applied manifestations. The contributors to Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond undertake the interdisciplinary task of telling the story of oceanography’s past, drawing on diverse methodologies. Their essays explore the concepts, techniques, and technologies of oceanography, as well as the social, economic, and institutional determinants of oceanographic history. Although focused on the Pacific, the geographic range of subjects is global and includes Micronesia, East Africa, and Antarctica; the bathymetric range comprises inshore fisheries, coral reefs, and the "azoic zone." The seventy-one contributors represent every continent of the globe except Antarctica, bringing together material on the history of oceanography never before published.
Book Synopsis George Wallace Melville Papers by : George Wallace Melville
Download or read book George Wallace Melville Papers written by George Wallace Melville and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence and newspapers clippings relating to George Wallace Melville. Most items about George W. De Long, the shipwreck of the the U.S. Steamer Jeannette, and Melville's death. Includes a letter from Melville to E.S. Richards, dated April 30, 1888 and manuscript order for deck duty signed by De Long dated March 7, 1872. One letter addressed to Melville by R.M. Barry, Lt. U.S. Navy, Siberia, April 7th, 1882. Includes volume: History of the adventurous voyage and terrible shipwreck of the U.S. Steamer "Jeannette" in the Polar Sea. New York : De Witte, 1882 (95 pages).
Book Synopsis Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 by : David W. Forbes
Download or read book Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 written by David W. Forbes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and final volume of the Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900, records the most volatile period in Hawaii's history. American business interests and the desire for a constitutional monarchy were pitted against the desire of the monarchs, King Kaläkaua and Queen Liliuokalani, to strengthen the power of the throne. The convulsions of the 1887 and 1889 revolutions were succeeded by the overthrow of the monarchy on January 17, 1893. Documents revealing the struggle over annexation, beginning in 1893, and the counterrevolution of 1895 are an important component of this volume. Annexation in 1898 was followed by a two-year period during which functions of government and laws were altered to conform to those of the United States. After the organic act became effective in 1900, vestiges of monarchical Hawaii disappeared and the history of the Territory of Hawaii unfolded. As with the previous volumes, Volume 4 is a record of printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands. A valuable component of this series is the inclusion of newspaper and periodical accounts, and single-sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills. Entries are extensively annotated, and also provided for each are exact title, date of publication, size of volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies.
Book Synopsis Biographic Register by : United States. Dept. of State
Download or read book Biographic Register written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history of bills and resolutions.
