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American Imperialism
To become a major naval power, the United States began to replace its wooden sailing ships with steel vessels powered by coal or oil in 1883. But control of the seas would also require the acquisition of naval bases and coaling stations. Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm had copies of Mahan's books placed on every ship in the German High Seas Fleet and the Japanese gov-ernment put translations in its im-perial bureaus. (continued at the top of page 2) By 1890, the United States had by far the world's most productive economy. American industry pro-duced twice as much as its closest competitor--Britain. But the United States was not a great military or diplomatic power. Its army num-bered less than 30,000 troops, and its navy had only about 10,000 men.
nation's farm prod-ucts and half its pe-troleum were sold overseas. Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval strategist and the author of The Influ-ence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosper-ity and power de-pended on control of the world's sea-lanes. "Whoever rules the …
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