Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 onwards

ISBN-13: 9780230202795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

Jeremy Black

Opis

Jeremy Black provides ashort and accessible account of naval power and its relationship to international relations.Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analyzing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures, he provides an overview of key debates withinthisincreasingly popularfield."

Spis treści

Introduction.- 1500-1660.- 1660-1775.- 1775-1815.- 1815-1914.- 1914-45.- 1945-2010.- The Future.- Conclusions.- Selected Further Reading.

O autorze

JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an authority on early modern British and continental European history, with special interest in international relations, military history, the press, and historical atlases. A prolific historian, he is the author of over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited volumes. Among his most recently published books are The English Seaborne Empire (Yale University Press, 2004); Rethinking Military History (Routledge, 2004); The Hanoverians: The History of the Dynasty (Hambledon& London, 2004); Using History (Hodder Arnold, 2005); and George III: America's Last King (Yale University Press, 2006).

Blurb

Man lives on land, but the seas of the world are crucial to his lot. Focusing on navies as instruments of power and analysing what they indicate about the nature of state systems and cultures all over the world, Black provides an overview of the most significant debates within the field. Organised into key historical periods and accessibly framed, this wide-ranging account emphasises the links between past and present throughout the history of naval power.