Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat by John H. Schroeder
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Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat by John H. Schroeder
This interpretive biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry -- the first to appear in over thirty years -- offers a balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied career as one of the U.S. Navy's preeminent officers of the antebellum era. Best remembered for leading a naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan in 1853, Perry succeeded where others before him had failed with the signing of a treaty that established formal diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan and ended Japan's isolation from the West. To this day Perry remains a respected figure in Japan as well as in the United States.
The author, a noted naval historian who draws on recent scholarship as well as archival sources, examines every phase of Perry's career, dealing frankly with both his strengths and weaknesses. Perry entered the navy in 1809 and served under Commodore John Rogers in the War of 1812. Over the next four decades, he went on to command the Africa Squadron, the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, and the East India Squadron. His efforts to modernize and improve the efficiency of the navy distinguished him as a naval reformer as well as a sailor and diplomat. He was a strong proponent of steam power, exploding shell ordnance, and other technological innovations, and an advocate of more education and better training for officers and sailors. Perry's views on American expansion in the Pacific foreshadowed the era in which the navy would be instrumental in acquiring overseas territories for the United States.
Naval Institute Press, Hardcover, 2001
This is a BRAND NEW book.
This interpretive biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry -- the first to appear in over thirty years -- offers a balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied career as one of the U.S. Navy's preeminent officers of the antebellum era. Best remembered for leading a naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan in 1853, Perry succeeded where others before him had failed with the signing of a treaty that established formal diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan and ended Japan's isolation from the West. To this day Perry remains a respected figure in Japan as well as in the United States.
The author, a noted naval historian who draws on recent scholarship as well as archival sources, examines every phase of Perry's career, dealing frankly with both his strengths and weaknesses. Perry entered the navy in 1809 and served under Commodore John Rogers in the War of 1812. Over the next four decades, he went on to command the Africa Squadron, the Gulf Squadron in the Mexican War, and the East India Squadron. His efforts to modernize and improve the efficiency of the navy distinguished him as a naval reformer as well as a sailor and diplomat. He was a strong proponent of steam power, exploding shell ordnance, and other technological innovations, and an advocate of more education and better training for officers and sailors. Perry's views on American expansion in the Pacific foreshadowed the era in which the navy would be instrumental in acquiring overseas territories for the United States.
Naval Institute Press, Hardcover, 2001
This is a BRAND NEW book.
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