Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350306959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350306959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.
Author: David Armine Howarth
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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No ship, large or small, goes to sea without some benefit of Britain's illustrious four-hundred-year-old tradition of seafaring enterprise and ingenuity. As he did in his highly successful earlier books, Waterloo and Trafalgar, David Howarth has woven together the colored threads of a vast tapestry figured with men, treasure hoards, unexplored coastlines and wild and smoky battles. Sovereign of the Seas begins as a book about British sea power and turns into the story of the British Empire and the tale of the adventuresome men--the admirals, captains, explorers, seamen and pirates--who manned the ships and mastered the waves that the world came to regard as Britain's own. Sovereign of the Seas does not assume a deep knowledge of maritime history. Each period--medieval, Elizabethan, the age of Nelson, the reign of steam and iron, the now-faded ideal of Pax Britannica--is excitingly described through stories of individual ships, sailors, voyages and battles. Lavishly illustrated with 24 pages of color and 24 pages of black-and-white plates plus maps, Sovereign of the Seas is a dramatic and international tale told with enthusiasm and flare by a master storyteller. -- Inside jacket flap.
Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: W. R. Brock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107688337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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This 1951 book explains how past events have led different nations of the Commonwealth to become Dominions.
Author: Andre Auw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521381975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Regional Novel In Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990 will be of interest to literary and social historians as well as cultural critics.
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Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: A. Forster
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 033398417X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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This book examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union which took place between December 1990 and December 1991. On the basis of documentary and interview based evidence of leading participants from Britain and Europe, it offers a unique insight into the objectives and motivations of the British government. It analyses the various constraints and pressures that impinged on the British government and sets its successes and failures in the Maastricht negotiations in a broader context of British European policy.
Author: Will Kaufman
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1851094318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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This comprehensive survey also traces how the Americas have in turn influenced contemporary Britain from the Americanization of language and politics to the impact of music and migration from the West Indies. Complete with an extensive introduction and a chronology of key events, this two-volume encyclopedia contains introductory essays focusing on the four prime areas of British Atlantic engagement-Canada, the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. Students of a wide range of disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this exhaustive survey, which traces the common themes of British policy and influence throughout the Americas and highlights how Britain has in benefited from the influence of American democracy, technology, culture and politics.
Author: National Maritime Museum
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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