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Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author
This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a seapower from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditionalview that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggestsinstead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force havealways been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, hecontributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policyin times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework ofnational, international, economic, political and strategicconsiderations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the centralquestions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery.
'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett
'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times
'Byfar the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... asparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review
'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History
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As soon as it appeared in 1976, Paul M. Kennedy's magisterial survey of the historical role and significance of British seapower was recognized by serious naval historians as a work of first importance ... This is by far the most important survey of British Naval history since Sir Herbert Richmond's Statesmen and Sea Power (1946), and in some ways it is more important ... the whole book displays an immense historiographical grasp of a calibre that broad surveys seldom attain. The author's unfailing powers of discernment are further revealed by a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page.