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

by Andrew D. Lambert

Book Overview

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states

"A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'"--William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal

Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812--winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal--turns his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300251483
• ISBN13: 9780300251487
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.7"