Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World, 1588-1782

by PeterPadfield (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.29

  In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Hapsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable.