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Author |
: Jonathan Scott |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2011-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139499934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139499939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis When the Waves Ruled Britannia by : Jonathan Scott
How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.
Author |
: N A M Rodger |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 744 |
Release |
: 2004-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141912578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 014191257X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Safeguard of the Sea by : N A M Rodger
Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness - of its sea power, from the desperate early campaigns against the Vikings to the defeat of the great Spanish Armada. Covering policy, strategy, ships, recruitment and weapons, this is a superb tapestry of nearly 1,000 years of maritime history. 'No other historian has examined the subject in anything like the detail found here. The result is an outstanding example of narrative history' Barry Unsworth, Sunday Telegraph
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674976207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674976207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Author |
: Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2021-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226790411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022679041X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waves Across the South by : Sujit Sivasundaram
"Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--
Author |
: Jane Marcus |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813529638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813529639 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hearts of Darkness by : Jane Marcus
"Marcus (English, CUNY-Graduate Center and City College of New York) explores race, gender, and reading in Europe during the 1920s and 30s--a period coinciding with the end of empire and the rise of fascism. The author analyzes the work of such novelists as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Mulk Raj Anand, and Djuna Barnes, and their treatment of cultural issues of their time--particularly imperialism and totalitarianism--in an effort to "relocate the heart of darkness in London and Paris, away from those light-filled lands of Africa and India where it has lodged in the Western imagination." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author |
: Gareth Farr |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1848423861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848423862 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britannia Waves the Rules by : Gareth Farr
An urgent, arresting story about the personal cost of contemporary conflict.
Author |
: Arthur Herman |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 688 |
Release |
: 2005-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060534257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060534257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Rule the Waves by : Arthur Herman
To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author |
: Sam Willis |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 672 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393248838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393248836 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution by : Sam Willis
A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.
Author |
: Piers Brendon |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 850 |
Release |
: 2010-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307388414 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307388417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by : Piers Brendon
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
Author |
: Jeremy Black |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300103867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300103861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Seaborne Empire by : Jeremy Black
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.