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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
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The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. It describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organizing of these last three – victualling, money and management – took the Navy to the heart of the British state. It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.
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| Weight | 0.696 kg |
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| Dimensions | 4.2 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Pages | 978 |
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| Year Published | 2006-9-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141026901 |
| About The Author | N.A.M. Rodger is Professor of Naval History at Exeter University and Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Wooden World and The Admiralty as well as the highly acclaimed first volume of his naval history of Britain, The Safeguard of the Sea (available in Penguin). |
I have never reviewed a book that has given me more pleasure … a masterpiece |
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| Other text | A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of Britain … it is likely to be regarded as one of the greatest works of historical scholarship of our age |
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