The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world /

Main Author: Paine, Lincoln P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Atlantic Books, 2015.
Edition:First Edition.
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300 |a xxxv, 744 p., [16] p. with plates :  |b ill. (some col.), maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [661]-706) and index. 
505 0 |a Taking to the water -- The river and seas of ancient Egypt -- Bronze Age seafaring -- Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Mediterranean -- Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean -- Chasing the monsoons -- Continent and archipelagoes in the East -- The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean -- Northern Europe through the Viking Age -- The Silk Road of the seas -- China looks seaward -- The medieval Mediterranean and Europe -- The golden age of maritime Asia -- The world encompassed -- The birth of global trade -- State and sea in the age of European expansion -- Northern Europe ascendant -- "Annihilation of space and time" -- Naval power in steam and steel -- The maritime world since the 1950s. 
650 0 |a Ocean and civilization 
650 0 |a Naval history 
650 0 |a Naval art and science  |x History 
650 0 |a Navigation  |x History 
650 0 |a Sea power  |x History 
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