Revolution at Sea

Episode 30: A New Pacific

The Pacific springs to new prominence as a trading center for obtaining resources to make goods and trading them globally via salt water.

Episode 29: A New Maritime Society

The geography of shipping changes the nature of ports and ship design changes ships.

Episode 28: An Altered Seascape Emerges

What freight do ships now carry and how does this change all our lives as producers and as consumers?

Episode 27: New Dimensions of Warfare

Europe tears itself apart in warfare, which becomes global. New weaponry below the surface and above it complicate warfare at sea, during the two great wars.

Episode 26: North Atlantic Supremacy

The Atlantic becomes a great avenue for the flow of trade and people.

Episode 25: Why Fight Spain?

Emotion pushes war. And Americans end with an empire stretching to the far Pacific.

Episode 24: Americans Look at the Sea Again

Exploiting new industry to modernize the navy, Americans begin to perceive its application to international affairs.

Episode 23: Americans Look Inward

The maritime USA did not react quickly to changing uses of the sea, which the industrial world was creating.

Episode 22: The USA: Rising Power

American space and resources enabled the rise of a new presence on the international seas. Establishing a powerful place in the world of sail, the nation falls into civil war.

Episode 21: Japanese Re-Emergence

Japan opens to the outside world and makes itself an Asian international power.