Michael Gerald's Reviews > Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

The age of Western exploration of the world was not just about exploration, but more so about imperialism, as this book attests. The so-called US Exploring Expedition from 1838-1842 was not just about exploring and charting most of the Pacific Ocean, as well as part of Antarctica, but also about the murder of Fijians, a precursor to its subjugation of the Native American peoples in the 19th century, its invasion and colonization of the Philippines in the early 20th, and its debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 21st.