Review: John Fass Morton - SEA POWER AND THE AMERICAN INTEREST
Review: Sea Power and the American Interest – From the Civil War to the Great War John Fass Morton. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 2024. 312 pp. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Reviewed by John S. Naylor This, is a book about context. In Sea Power and the American Interest , Mr. Morton exhaustively provides context, describing the enduring influences that industry, politics, finance and monetary policy, technology, and extractive resources had on U.S. foreign policy through the Gilded Age and into the Great War. Anyone studying U.S. intervention overseas during the era will encounter a phrase akin to “to protect American interests”. Morton’s work fleshes out what these interests were and how these interests contributed to the nation’s growth—in providing an in-depth explanation how they developed, he affords a greater understanding of the intersection of industry, economics, politics, and military action in the late 19 th century. Morton makes his argumen