To say nothing of his role commanding the USS Mississippi, the same ship he'd ride into Edo Bay, in the siege of Veracruz during the Mexican-American War.
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Michael Verney's _A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early U.S. Republic_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) has a very good chapter on Perry.
Oh this is just what I've been looking for. Launching into a new project on the American Civil War as Japanese history and been searching far and wide for something that puts the American Navy in global perspective. So glad to have this on my radar screen. Thank you.
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