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Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind

By: Overlook Press, The

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Overlook Press)


Product Info

Title
Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind
Category
Author
Peter Padfield
Pages
340
Dimensions
6.25x9.25x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148121634
Type
Hardcover

Description

This book, a kind of sequel to or refinement of Alfred T. Mahan's 19th-century classic The Influence of Sea Power upon History, begins with a standard in war, naval power tends to trump land power. But Peter Padfield makes an even bolder "Maritime supremacy is the key which unlocks most, if not all, large questions of modern history, certainly the puzzle of how and why we--the Western democracies--are as we are."