Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West, Volume Two: 1654-1763

Padfield, Peter

ISBN 10: 0710092156 / ISBN 13: 9780710092151

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982

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8vo, 270 pp.

Seller Inventory # 114712

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West, Volume Two: 1654-1763
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710092156
• ISBN 13: 9780710092151
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nautical & Maritime

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Synopsis

Beginning with England poised to take over as foremost world trading and naval power, leading through the epic struggle of both maritime powers against Bourbon France, this volume, originally published in 1982, concludes with England’s assumption of the ‘Sovereignty of the Seas’. In this challenging view of naval history, which also embraces economics, finance and philosophy, political and individual freedoms are seen not so much as a cultural heritage, but as the necessary bed-fellos of ‘Sea Power’ and incompatible with its antithesis, ‘Territorial Power’.