The British seaborne empire /
Sea-power made the British Empire what it was: without sea-power there would have been no empire, or at least no empire in the form it actually took. In this analysis of the role of the sea in the history of the British Empire, Black follows in the tradition of classic works by C.R. Boxer on the Dut...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of empire
- Growing strength, 1650-1750
- Colonial expansion and the struggle for maritime dominance, 1650-1750
- The battle for primacy, 1750-1815
- The world power, 1815-1901
- Naval strength and imperial expansion, 1815-1901
- Empire under challenge, 1901-1918
- New threats, 1919-1945
- Loss and legacy, 1945-1972
- The remains of empire 1973-2004.