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1 online resource (xv, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (color, and black and white), maps |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction. Seapower as Culture -- 1. Creating Seapower Identity -- 2. Constructing a Seapower: Athens, Democracy and Empire -- 3. Burning the Carthaginian Fleet -- 4. Trade, War and Ceremony: The Venetian Seapower State -- 5. 'To What Great Profit Are We Opening the Sea': The Dutch Seapower State -- 6. Sea States and Overseas Empires: A Problem of Perspective -- 7. The Limits of Continental Naval Power: Absolutism, Command Economies and One- Party States -- 8. England: The Last Seapower -- 9. Seapower Today -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX. Cultural Seapowers. A CONCEPTUAL AIDE- MÉMOIRE -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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In English. |
ISBN |
9780300240900 (electronic bk.) |
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0300240902 (electronic bk.) |
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0300230044 |
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9780300230048 |
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0300230044 |
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9780300230048 |
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9780300230048 |
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10.12987/9780300240900 doi |
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