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| Author | : Jeremy Black |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300103861 |
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Jeremy Black |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2019-04-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1641770392 |
Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.
| Author | : Gabriel Paquette |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2019-05-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300245270 |
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative overview of imperial expansion that incorporates recent critiques of older scholarly approaches, Paquette then analyzes the significance of these empires, including their political, economic, and social consequences and legacies. He makes the multifaceted history of Europe’s globe-spanning empires in this crucial period accessible to new readers.
| Author | : M. Taylor |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2013-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137312661 |
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
| Author | : James L. Stokesbury |
| Publisher | : New York, N.Y. : William Morrow |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780688069698 |
The author of A Short History of World War I and A Short History of World War II traces the dramatic influence of sea power on the rise and fall of the British Empire.
| Author | : David Cannadine |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2007-06-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Between the end of the Seven Years war in 1763, and the abolition of slavery within its Empire in 1833, Britain's maritime engagement with the wider world was transformed. The essays in this book explore different aspects of that transformation, and in so doing assess the significance and complexities of Britain's maritime world in this key period, which was characterized by the contradictory and competing forces of revolution and reaction, 'liberty' and imperialism, war and peace, enlightenment and enslavement. They were originally delivered as lectures in a series jointly sponsored by the Institute of Historical Research and by the Centre for Imperial and Maritime Studies at the National Maritime Museum.
| Author | : David B. Quinn |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2023-08-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000963799 |
First published in 1983, England’s Sea Empire was originally part of the Early Modern Europe Today book series. It explores the relationships between the increase of English merchant shipping, the growth of naval power and the early experiments in overseas trade and colonisation. No other book combines these topics for the period from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century. In dealing with economic, strategic and technical problems, the authors write in language which is intelligible to non-specialist readers. They illustrate the arguments with generous quotations from contemporary sources and with maps of the regions under discussion. This book will be of value on undergraduate courses in early British or colonial or maritime history.
| Author | : Douglas Hamilton |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019884722X |
This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail.
| Author | : Ben Wilson |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 670 |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0297864092 |
The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism. The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there was nothing inevitable about this rise to maritime domination, nor was it ever an easy path. EMPIRE OF THE DEEP: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NAVY also reveals how our naval history has shaped us in more subtle and surprising ways - our language, culture, politics and national character all owe a great debt to this conquest of the seas. This is a gripping, fresh take on our national story.
| Author | : John Horace Parry |
| Publisher | : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2012-09-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307822850 |
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators." Parry presents a broad picture of the conquests of Cortès and Pizarro and of the economic and social consequences in Spain of the effort to maintain control of vast holdings. He probes the complex administration of the empire, its economy, social structure, the influence of the Church, the destruction of the Indian cultures and the effect of their decline on Spanish policy. As we approach the quincentenary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Parry provides the historical basis for a new consideration of the former Spanish colonies of Latin America and the transformation of pre-Columbian cultures to colonial states.
