APPENDIX. Cultural Seapowers. A CONCEPTUAL AIDE- MÉMOIRE

Chapters in this book

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