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.
Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782
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- By: Peter Padfield
- Title: Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782
- Series: The Maritime Supremacy Trilogy
- First Published by: John Murray
- First Published Format: HC
- First Published Date: 29 April 1999
- ISBN-10: 0719556554
- ISBN-13: 9780719556555