Andrew D. Lambert Seapower states

maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the modern world

"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...

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Engels | 399 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2018

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