| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600–2000. By Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2008. xviii, 521 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-470-13600-3.)
This revolutionary volume is the first of two contemplated by the American Maritime History Project, an independent enterprise with an office at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. The authors seek to explain how Americans progressed from the frail ships, barks, and pinnaces, which brought Europeans to North America in the age of discovery, to the megaships that sail the world's oceans today and to the coastal and river craft that ply America's brown waters.	1
Describing the current American way of the ship, the authors say: "Never in the na tion's history has shipping been so invisible to Americans" (p. 1). The United States, they explain, is "a brown-water nation, with a blue water consciousness" (ibid.).	. . .

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