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Seapower States

Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

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Seapower States

By: Andrew Lambert
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge - winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal - turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size.

Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and inclusive than their lumbering continental rivals. Only when they forgot this aspect of their identity did these nations begin to decline. Recognizing that the United States and China are modern naval powers - rather than seapowers - is essential to understanding current affairs, as well as the long-term trends in world history. This volume is a highly original "big think" analysis of five states whose success - and eventual failure - is a subject of enduring interest, by a scholar at the top of his game.

©2018 Andrew Lambert (P)2018 Tantor Armed Forces Economic History Economics Maritime History & Piracy Military Naval Forces Political Science Politics & Government World Middle Ages Imperialism Latin America War Africa Royalty Middle East
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This is not a light read. A sweeping theme and the author has enormous depth of knowledge.I had to stop for occasional fact checks as the author assumes you know your history. Well informed analysis sadly let down poor narration. Frequent instances where emphasis on the wrong word made a complex argument even more difficult to follow. However, welll worth the effort.

Fascinating but let down by the narration.

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