Buy this book on-line STOKESBURY, JAMES L: : NAVY & EMPIRE - A short history of British sea power from the Armada to the FalklandsLONDON.ROBERT HALE,1984. ISBN 0709017871.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Slight shelf-wear top edge dw/dj.8vo,430pp including suggestions for further reading, b/w maps and an index.
The extent of British political influence has always been bound up with the development of her sea power.The book begins with the Elizabethan explorers and adventurers and ends with the Falklands crisis.In the intervening 400 years the emphasis moves away from the great individuals - Hawkins,Drake and Nelson - to the advances in technology and the subtleties of international diplomacy. Examines the trade wars,sea-battles and colonization - for religion and profit - that are the vital stages in the forging of empire.The British Empire stretched over some 16 million square miles of the world's surface until WW2 - an era when domination of the seas was the key to political hegemony.
Although a gripping historical narrative author offers some provocative analysis.He argues that the circle has come full round: in 1580's Britain was an island on the fringe of world affairs,with Spain and Portugal the mighty powers of the time; in the 1980's,with the Royal Navy depleted, her importance has again diminished in the face of two 20thC superpowers.
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