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The command of the ocean
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- N. A. M. Rodger is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and former Professor of Naval History at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History, the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, the British Academy Book prize, the Hattendorf Prize, and the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780141026909
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (07 September 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 907
- Weight
- 686 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 129 x 43 mm
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