Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

Автор: Lambert Andrew   (Эндрю Ламберт)
Название:  Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
Перевод названия: Эндрю Ламберт: Государства морской державы. Морская культура, континентальные империи и конфликт, ко
ISBN: 9780300251487
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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ISBN-10: 0300251483
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 424
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 17.03.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 7 maps, 9 b-w and 8pp col. illus.
Размер: 199 x 136 x 32
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the modern world
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states

Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812--winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal--turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as seapowers informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size.

Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline. Recognizing that the United States and China are modern naval powers--rather than seapowers--is essential to understanding current affairs, as well as the long-term trends in world history. This volume is a highly original big think analysis of five states whose success--and eventual failure--is a subject of enduring interest, by a scholar at the top of his game.