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In the wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. This work charts the growth of linked strengths - fighting, trading, financial and constitutional - that made them so formidable. |
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Author: Peter Padfield Title: Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782 Series: The Maritime Supremacy Trilogy First Published by: John Murray Place: Format: HC Date: 29 April 1999 ISBN-10: 0719556554 ISBN-13: 9780719556555 |
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