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008			210629s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a1982127252 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781982127251 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781982127268 _q(paperback)
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050	0	0	_aHE571 _b.B68 2021
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092			_a387.5 J7119T 2021
100	1		_aJones, Bruce D.
245	1	0	_aTo rule the waves : _bhow control of the world's oceans shapes the fate of the superpowers / _cBruce D. Jones.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
263			_a2109
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2021.
300			_aviii, 389 pages : _billustrations : _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly-painted 40-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits by it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in bright, closely observed prose, To Rule the Waves author Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases of this era-from the vast container ports of Shanghai and Hong Kong to the vital naval base of the American 7th fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America's standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time-for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate-are playing out atop, within, and below the world's oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences)
650		0	_aSea-power _xHistory
650		0	_aShipping _xHistory
650		0	_aWorld politics
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