Grady John Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873 9780786478217

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Автор: Grady John
Название: Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873
ISBN: 9780786478217
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Гражданская война в Америке

ISBN-10: 0786478217
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2015
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 photographs
Размер: 224 x 152 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: American Civil War
Подзаголовок: A biography, 1806-1873
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In becoming “a useful man” on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontained Maury focused light on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britains admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. Late in life, he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines.Maurys eagerness to go to the public in person and in print on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the United States, Confederate and Royal navies. They dismissed him as the “Man on the Hill”. Over his career, Maury more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis, and Stephen R. Mallory, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and later secretary of the Confederate States Navy. Through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, however, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler; but by the early 1870s they too were in eclipse or in the grave.

Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography: A Biography, 1806-1873, Grady John