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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 3: Naval History of the Sea V. 1, 660-1

Rodger, N A M

 
9780140288964: The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140288961 ISBN 13 : 9780140288964
Editeur : Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in half a dozen languages over nearly a decade, and synthesising a vast quantity of secondary material, it describes not just battles and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organising of these last three - victualling, money and management - took the Navy to the heart of the British state. It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.

The Command of the Ocean is a landmark in naval and military history; but it also allows us to see the history of Britain as a whole in a new perspective. Anyone interested in British history at this crucial stage in it's development will find it both engrossing and enlightening.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Rodger is Professor of Naval History at Exeter University and Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Wooden World and The Admiralty as well as the highly acclaimed first volume of his naval history of Britain, The Safeguard of the Sea (also published by Penguin).

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140288961
ISBN 13 
9780140288964
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
976
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