| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment. By Gary E. Weir. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. xx, 403 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-58544-114-7.)

This book traces the developing relationship between the U.S. Navy and ocean scientists from the end of World War I to the early 1960s. The author, Gary E. Weir, is an official navy historian who has written extensively about American submarine programs. His principal thesis is that the symbiotic connection between scientists and the navy depended as much upon an interpersonal network of military and civilian oceanography boosters as upon technological and political developments. Once those boosters developed mutual trust and learned to communicate across the warrior-scientist cultural divide, they were able to create a large and increasingly productive program of ocean studies in support of the navy. . . .

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