A History of Sea Power (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Caron, Henri Le

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440043841 ISBN 13 : 9781440043840

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how naval power has shaped civilizations from ancient fleets to modern sea routes.

Discover the strategic battles, trade networks, and political decisions that steered world history.

William Oliver Stevens offers a sweeping look at sea power, showing how nations rose and fell through control of the oceans. This narrative ties together fleet strategy, commerce, and diplomacy to explain why the seas mattered as much as land.

The book traces a long arc—from ancient galleys and empires to modern naval power—highlighting turning points, influential captains, and enduring lessons about maritime influence on global events.

• Follow key campaigns, maritime innovations, and strategic choices that shaped nations.
• See how trade, blockade, and naval diplomacy affected the balance of power across eras.
• Understand the evolution of naval technology and its impact on tactics and politics.
• Gain a chronological framework linking ancient seafaring to today’s sea power dynamics.

Ideal for readers of military and world history who want a cohesive picture of how the ocean has steered human events.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume has been called into being by the absence of any brief work covering the evolution and influence of sea power from the beginnings to the present time. In a survey at once so comprehensive and so short, only the high points of naval history can be touched. Yet it is the hope of the authors that they have not, for that reason, slighted the significance of the story. Naval history is more than a sequence of battles. Sea power has always been a vital force in the rise and fall of nations and in the evolution of civilization. It is this significance, this larger, related point of view, which the authors have tried to make clear in recounting the story of the sea. In regard to naval principles, also, this general survey should reveal those unchanging truths of warfare which have been demonstrated from Salamis to Jutland. The tendency of our modern era of mechanical development has been to forget the value of history. It is true that the 16 gun is a great advance over the 32-pounder of Trafalgar, but it is equally true that the naval officer of to-day must still sit at the feet of Nelson. The authors would acknowledge their indebtedness to Professor F. Wells Williams of Yale, and to the Classical Departments of Harvard and the University of Chicago for valuable aid in bibliography. Thanks are due also to Commander C. C. Gill, U. S. N., Captain T. G. Frothingam, U. S. N. R., Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, and to colleagues of the Department of English at the Naval Academy for helpful criticism.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440043841
• ISBN 13: 9781440043840
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 465
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