An edition of To Rule the Waves (2004)

To Rule the Waves

How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)

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An edition of To Rule the Waves (2004)

To Rule the Waves

How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)

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Recounts how Britain's Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From its beginnings under Henry VIII and adventurers like John Hawkins and Francis Drake, the Royal Navy toppled one world economic system, built by Spain and Portugal after Columbus, and ushered in another--the one in which we still live today. Follows its historiy from the defeat of the Spanish Armada, through the seventeenth century, when the navy came to play a leading role as England became a world power, through the convulsions of Napoleon, the twentieth century, and the downfall of the British Empire itself, as Britain passed its essential elements on to its successor, the United States.

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Harper Perennial
Language
English
Pages
648

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British influences, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Navy, History, Modern Civilization, Diplomatic relations, Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History, Civilization, Modern -- British influences, Foreign relations, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, royal navy, Great britain, history, naval

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"FOR THREE DAYS the ships had struggled to hold their own against the hurricane."

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New York
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Dewey Decimal Class
942, 359
Library of Congress
VA 454, VA454 .H37 2005

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OL7278037M
ISBN 10
0060534257
ISBN 13
9780060534257
OCLC/WorldCat
73828561
LibraryThing
21744
Goodreads
85632

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OL46799W

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