History | General
Tudor Sea Power
2020-07-11 01:18:24
image1
COMPARE PRICE
In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or ... Read more
In the sixteenth century England turned from being an insignifcant part of an offshore island into a nation respected and feared in Europe. This was not achieved through empire building, conquest, large armies, treaties, marriage alliances, trade or any of the other traditional means of exercising power. Indeed England was successful in few of these. Instead she based her power and eventual supremacy on the creation of a standing professional navy which firstly would control her coasts and those of her rivals, and then threaten their trade around the world. This emergence of a sea-power brought with it revolutionary ship designs and new weapon-fits, all with the object of making English warships feared on the seas in which they sailed. Along with this came the absorption of new navigational skills and a breed of sailor who fought for his living. Indeed, the English were able to harness the avarice of the merchant and the ferocity of the pirate to the needs of the state to create seamen who feared God and little else. Men schooled as corsairs rose to command the state's navy and their background and self-belief defeated all who came against them. This is their story; the story of how seizing command of the sea with violent intent led to the birth of the greatest seaborne empire the world has ever seen. Less
  • ISBN
  • 9781473819924
autor-image
Anonymous
Author
-...
Compare Prices
image
Buy USD 47.99
Available Discount
No Discount available
Related Books
view all
image1
La Cour de Lunéville au XVIIIe siècle / Les marquises de Boufflers et du Châtelet, Voltaire, Devau, Saint-Lambert, etc.:
image1
The Birth of Civilization in the Near East:
image1
The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone:
image1
Trivia:
image1
A Description of Greenland:
image1
The Legends of the Iroquois, Told by the Cornplanter:
image1
The Battle of Talavera:
image1
Discovering the Hidden Listener:
image1
The Principles of Leather Manufacture:
image1
Russian Aces of World War 1:
image1
From Xylographs to Lead Molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921:
image1
Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895:
image1
Slavery in History:
image1
6000 Tons of Gold:
image1
Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam:
image1
The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet:
image1
Palestine Diaries:
image1
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
image1
Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders:
image1
Napoleon:
image1
The Huntress:
image1
The Doctor's Secret Journal:
image1
Croquis Parisiens; A Vau-l'Eau; Un Dilemme:
image1
The Dates of Variously-Shaped Shields With Coincident Dates and Examples:
image1
De Latino Sine Flexione; Principio De Permanentia:

Stay in touch.

© 2024 AMPLE READS