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1. Creating Seapower Identity
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Andrew Lambert
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS viii
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
- PREFACE xiv
- Introduction. Seapower as Culture 1
- 1. Creating Seapower Identity 17
- 2. Constructing a Seapower: Athens, Democracy and Empire 45
- 3. Burning the Carthaginian Fleet 80
- 4. Trade, War and Ceremony: The Venetian Seapower State 110
- 5. ‘To What Great Profit Are We Opening the Sea’: The Dutch Seapower State 157
- 6. Sea States and Overseas Empires: A Problem of Perspective 204
- 7. The Limits of Continental Naval Power: Absolutism, Command Economies and One- Party States 227
- 8. England: The Last Seapower 266
- 9. Seapower Today 311
- CONCLUSION 323
- APPENDIX. Cultural Seapowers. A CONCEPTUAL AIDE- MÉMOIRE 330
- GLOSSARY 332
- NOTES 334
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 362
- INDEX 373
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS viii
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
- PREFACE xiv
- Introduction. Seapower as Culture 1
- 1. Creating Seapower Identity 17
- 2. Constructing a Seapower: Athens, Democracy and Empire 45
- 3. Burning the Carthaginian Fleet 80
- 4. Trade, War and Ceremony: The Venetian Seapower State 110
- 5. ‘To What Great Profit Are We Opening the Sea’: The Dutch Seapower State 157
- 6. Sea States and Overseas Empires: A Problem of Perspective 204
- 7. The Limits of Continental Naval Power: Absolutism, Command Economies and One- Party States 227
- 8. England: The Last Seapower 266
- 9. Seapower Today 311
- CONCLUSION 323
- APPENDIX. Cultural Seapowers. A CONCEPTUAL AIDE- MÉMOIRE 330
- GLOSSARY 332
- NOTES 334
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 362
- INDEX 373