How did Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 impact American foreign policy?-The United States began constructing modern naval warships based on Mahan's book.-It was received as a scholarly work on British naval history, not a work that had any bearing on U.S. policy in the nineteenth century.-Mahan's view that it was the United States' destiny to bring Christianity to Africa led to 18,000 American missionaries working on that continent by 1900.

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