Episodes

Friday Mar 19, 2021
Episode 30: A New Pacific
Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
The Pacific springs to new prominence as a trading center for obtaining resources to make goods and trading them globally via salt water.

Friday Mar 12, 2021
Episode 29: A New Maritime Society
Friday Mar 12, 2021
Friday Mar 12, 2021
The geography of shipping changes the nature of ports and ship design changes ships.

Friday Mar 05, 2021
Episode 28: An Altered Seascape Emerges
Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
What freight do ships now carry and how does this change all our lives as producers and as consumers?

Friday Feb 26, 2021
Episode 27: New Dimensions of Warfare
Friday Feb 26, 2021
Friday Feb 26, 2021
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.

Friday Feb 19, 2021
Episode 26: North Atlantic Supremacy
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
The Atlantic becomes a great avenue for the flow of trade and people.

Friday Feb 12, 2021
Episode 25: Why Fight Spain?
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Emotion pushes war. And Americans end with an empire stretching to the far Pacific.

Friday Feb 05, 2021
Episode 24: Americans Look at the Sea Again
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Exploiting new industry to modernize the navy, Americans begin to perceive its application to international affairs.

Friday Jan 29, 2021
Episode 23: Americans Look Inward
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
The maritime USA did not react quickly to changing uses of the sea, which the industrial world was creating.

Friday Jan 22, 2021
Episode 22: The USA: Rising Power
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
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.

Friday Jan 15, 2021
Episode 21: Japanese Re-Emergence
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Japan opens to the outside world and makes itself an Asian international power.