great white fleet voyage around di robert hart (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 362 pages. Ex-university library marks, heavily sunned covers and spine. Pages lightly tanned; a good solid binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Inventory No: 216287.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Our nation's attempt at global diplomacy in the twilight of its innocence. Clean text. Minor wear along the edges. Store mark on the inside cover.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No writing or tears in text; name stamped inside front; some dustjacket edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. xvi, 362, [6] pages. Endpaper map (Track of the Great White Fleet). Illustrations. Bibliographical Note. Notes. Index. The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the powerful United States Navy battle fleet that completed a journey around the globe from 16 December 1907, to 22 February 1909, by order of President Theodore Roosevelt. Its mission was to make friendly courtesy visits to numerous countries, while displaying new U.S. naval power to the world. It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability. The United States Congress appropriated funds to build American naval power. Beginning in the 1880s with just 90 l ships, the navy grew to include new steel fighting vessels. The ship hulls were painted a stark white, giving the armada the nickname "Great White Fleet." Derived from a Kirkus Review: The Great White Fleet was Teddy Roosevelt's great hope for international recognition of American naval might and it amounted to a fleet of great warships afloat. The story has never been told before at such length; it can be found as an incredible footnote in naval histories. A smothered section of the naval high command said that the American fleet was in no fit condition to tour the major ports of the world. Their more public relations-minded colleagues shushed them with one hand and with the other, promoted the white fleet. Further, they recruited barefoot boys with cheeks of tan to represent American young manhood as sailors; gouty, superannuated officers were braced to command--and dance-at every port of call. Newspaper critics were howled down by an entranced American public. The author has followed the fleet, measured the gallons of paint that covered the appalling defects and assesses the international and domestic effect of what was essentially a floating parade. Anecdotally buoyant. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.