[PDF] Maritime Supremacy eBook

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585671519

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In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires. This extraordinary book charts the growth of these powers in various western countries while revealing the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself. As noted historian Peter Padfield demonstrates, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise, a historical lesson of burning relevance today. Maritime Supremacydetails the struggles of the first supreme maritime powers of the modern age, the Dutch and the British, and ends with the emergence of the ultimate successor, the United States world power was won. Immersing the reader in the drama of events, including riveting great sea battles, Padfield challenges our view of the evolution of today's world. "Outstanding . . . offers up naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as any you will find in Patrick O'Brian." (John Lehman, former secretary of the US Navy, The Wall Street Journal) "[Padfield's] comprehension of the context and his natural, understandable absorption in the details are expressed in fine writing." (Stephen Howarth, Naval History)

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : History
ISBN :

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From the best naval historian of his generation (John Keegan) comes a brilliant exploration of the significance of maritime power in shaping the western ideal of political freedom. 25 illustrations.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2000-07-06
Category : Great powers
ISBN : 9780712664622

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A masterpiece of naval history, this book charts the growth of sea-fighting and trading and reveals the way in which supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself.

Author : Richard Harding
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1843835800

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Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780719556555

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In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable.

Author : Seth Cropsey
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1468310003

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A naval expert charts the rise and fall of America’s maritime supremacy—and what it means for the future of U.S. security and prosperity. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America’s superpower status and the relative peace of the postwar era. But in the twenty-first century, the United States Navy’s combat fleet has dwindled to historic lows—the smallest since before World War I. At the same time, rival nations such as China have increased the size of their navies at an extraordinary rate. As Seth Cropsey convincingly argues, the precipitous decline of the U.S. as a great seapower will have profound consequences sooner than we might think. In clear and concise language, Mayday tracks the modern evolution of U.S. maritime strength, where it stands now, and the likely consequences if changes are not made to both the Navy’s size and shape and to the United States’ strategic understanding of how to combine maritime and continental force.

Author : Peter Padfield
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : History
ISBN :

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"With Maritime Supremacy, naval historian Peter Padfield was acclaimed for bringing a fresh perspective to world history by looking at it through the lens of naval history, as no one had before. Now in the follow-up to that book, Maritime Power, Padfield combines the drama of battle with a trenchant analysis of the causes of victory, revealing the hidden constant of history whereby sea powers have, throughout the modern era, prevailed over land-based empires." "In the history of warfare at sea, no era can match the glory of the Nelson era, during which Britain gained supremacy over her rival, Napoleonic France, in the Battle of Trafalgar of 1805, and after which she was to find a new rival, the young United States, in the War of 1812. Padfield sets the reader on the gun deck, amid the cannons, smoke, blood, and death and "offers naval campaigns and sea battles as vivid as anything you will find in Patrick O'Brian" (former secretary of the U.S. Navy, John Lehman, The Wall Street Journal). In his analysis of the factors that led Britain to global dominance in the nineteenth century, Padfield shows naval history to be a major determinant and shaper of the modern world."--Jacket.