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    Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851
    Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001
    Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782
    Audiobook series3 titles

    Maritime Trilogy Series

    Written by Peter Padfield

    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart

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    About this series

    In this outstanding book, naval historian Peter Padfield explores the ways in which maritime strength has influenced political power from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern age.

    Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world.

    In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present, with vivid descriptions of the naval battles that have shaped our world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 14, 2021
    Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851
    Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001
    Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782

    Titles in the series (3)

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      Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782
      Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782

      Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world, 1588-1782

      Peter Padfield
      5/5 - 2 ratings
      5/5 - 2 ratings

      In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. In contrast to the rigid hierarchies and centralization of land-based empires, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise. The seventeenth-century Dutch were the first to achieve naval and trading dominance and, exploring the effects on daily life, industry, art and thought, finance and power politics, Peter Padfield reveals the Dutch in their golden age as the heralds of modern Western society. The British took over the Dutch system of naval, trading, and world supremacy in the eighteenth century and were, in their turn, displaced by the United States in the twentieth. This book carries the story from the defeat of the Armada in 1588 to the American Revolutionary War and Rodney's victory. Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind charts the growth of linked strengths-sea-fighting, trading, financial and constitutional-which made empires so formidable, and reveals how supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself.

      In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi or Soviet. In contrast to the rigid hierarchies and centralization of land-based empires, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise. The seventeenth-century Dutch were the first to achieve naval and trading dominance and, exploring the effects on daily life, industry, art and thought, finance and power politics, Peter Padfield reveals the Dutch in their golden age as the heralds of modern Western society. The British took over the Dutch system of naval, trading, and world supremacy in the eighteenth century and were, in their turn, displaced by the United States in the twentieth. This book carries the story from the defeat of the Armada in 1588 to the American Revolutionary War and Rodney's victory. Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind charts the growth of linked strengths-sea-fighting, trading, financial and constitutional-which made empires so formidable, and reveals how supremacy at sea freed thought and society itself.

    • 2

      Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851
      Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851

      Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1788-1851

      Peter Padfield
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      In Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, Peter Padfield presents a superb description and analysis of naval campaigns, conducted between 1788 and 1851, that shaped the modern world. Winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, this is the second of Padfield's masterful trilogy that traces the impact of naval power on modern history, and the means by which it has been enacted. The book combines vivid and engrossing descriptions of historically important events with careful analysis and intelligent discussion of the idea that maritime powers are fundamentally different-in attitude, behaviors and outcomes-to landlocked states.

      In Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom, Peter Padfield presents a superb description and analysis of naval campaigns, conducted between 1788 and 1851, that shaped the modern world. Winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, this is the second of Padfield's masterful trilogy that traces the impact of naval power on modern history, and the means by which it has been enacted. The book combines vivid and engrossing descriptions of historically important events with careful analysis and intelligent discussion of the idea that maritime powers are fundamentally different-in attitude, behaviors and outcomes-to landlocked states.

    • 3

      Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001
      Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001

      Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World: Naval campaigns that shaped the modern world 1852-2001

      Peter Padfield
      4/5 - 1 rating
      4/5 - 1 rating

      In this outstanding book, naval historian Peter Padfield explores the ways in which maritime strength has influenced political power from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern age. Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world. In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present, with vivid descriptions of the naval battles that have shaped our world.

      In this outstanding book, naval historian Peter Padfield explores the ways in which maritime strength has influenced political power from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern age. Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world. In this final volume of his masterful trilogy, Padfield carries the theme through the terrible wars of the last century to the present, with vivid descriptions of the naval battles that have shaped our world.

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