Maritime Supremacy

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585671519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind written by Peter Padfield and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires. This extraordinary book charts the growth of these powers in various western countries while revealing the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself. As noted historian Peter Padfield demonstrates, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise, a historical lesson of burning relevance today. Maritime Supremacydetails the struggles of the first supreme maritime powers of the modern age, the Dutch and the British, and ends with the emergence of the ultimate successor, the United States world power was won. Immersing the reader in the drama of events, including riveting great sea battles, Padfield challenges our view of the evolution of today's world. "Outstanding . . . offers up naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as any you will find in Patrick O'Brian." (John Lehman, former secretary of the US Navy, The Wall Street Journal) "[Padfield's] comprehension of the context and his natural, understandable absorption in the details are expressed in fine writing." (Stephen Howarth, Naval History)

Author : Seth Cropsey
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781590207895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayday written by Seth Cropsey and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the United States Navy has shrunk while the maritime presence of other nations, particularly China, has expanded, and discusses the implications for American naval superiority and strategy.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind written by Peter Padfield and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best naval historian of his generation (John Keegan) comes a brilliant exploration of the significance of maritime power in shaping the western ideal of political freedom. 25 illustrations.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712664622
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind written by Peter Padfield and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-07-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of naval history, this book charts the growth of sea-fighting and trading and reveals the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself.

Author : Gerald Sandford Graham
Publisher : Cambridge : U.P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Naval Supremacy written by Gerald Sandford Graham and published by Cambridge : U.P.. This book was released on 1965 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Harding
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835800
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy written by Richard Harding and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719556555
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind written by Peter Padfield and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable.

Author : Richard Buel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300073881
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Irons written by Richard Buel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogens undertitel er et amerikansk udtryk for at "Ligge i vindøjet" og der henvises til kolonikrigene, der så deres begyndelse i 1775. Således var vindøjet her den engelske flådes blokade af de nordamerikanske fristater. Den økonomiske og militære historie hænger sammen, og denne bog foretager en bedre end normalt set videnskabeligt forsket årsagssammenhæng, idet den som hovedkonklusion ser på den engelske flådeblokades påvirkning af landbrugssektoren og videre på den skade fristaterne påførtes ved engelsk besættelse af betydningsfulde landbrugsområder og manglende øversøiske eksportmuligheder for disse oprørske stater.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maritime Power and Struggle for Freedom written by Peter Padfield and published by . This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Maritime Supremacy, naval historian Peter Padfield was acclaimed for bringing a fresh perspective to world history by looking at it through the lens of naval history, as no one had before. Now in the follow-up to that book, Maritime Power, Padfield combines the drama of battle with a trenchant analysis of the causes of victory, revealing the hidden constant of history whereby sea powers have, throughout the modern era, prevailed over land-based empires." "In the history of warfare at sea, no era can match the glory of the Nelson era, during which Britain gained supremacy over her rival, Napoleonic France, in the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805, and after which she was to find a new rival, the young United States, in the War of 1812. Padfield sets the reader on the gun deck, amid the cannons, smoke, blood, and death and "offers naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as anything you will find in Patrick O'Brian" (former secretary of the U.S. Navy, John Lehman, The Wall Street Journal). In his analysis of the factors that led Britain to global dominance in the nineteenth century, Padfield shows naval history to be a major determinant and shaper of the modern world."--Jacket.

Author : Seth Cropsey
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468310003
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayday written by Seth Cropsey and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A naval expert charts the rise and fall of America’s maritime supremacy—and what it means for the future of U.S. security and prosperity. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America’s superpower status and the relative peace of the postwar era. But in the twenty-first century, the United States Navy’s combat fleet has dwindled to historic lows—the smallest since before World War I. At the same time, rival nations such as China have increased the size of their navies at an extraordinary rate. As Seth Cropsey convincingly argues, the precipitous decline of the U.S. as a great seapower will have profound consequences sooner than we might think. In clear and concise language, Mayday tracks the modern evolution of U.S. maritime strength, where it stands now, and the likely consequences if changes are not made to both the Navy’s size and shape and to the United States’ strategic understanding of how to combine maritime and continental force.