Empire of the seas
how the navy forged the modern world
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveempireofseashown0000lave
- Internet Archiveempireofseashown0000lave_g6h5
- ISBN-101844861090
- ISBN-139781844861095
- WikidataQ119992760
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- OCLC Control Number423599090
- Better World BooksKO-989-903
- Better World BooksKN-863-894
- Better World Books9781844861095
- Open LibraryOL32096410M
Classifications
- DDC359.00941
- LCCDA70 .L38 2009
- LCCDA70
Description
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become reality - that the nation's new destiny, the souce of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed out culture, our sens of national identity and our democracy.
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