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Seapower States
- Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Douglas
- 24-10-19
bit too self congratulatory
there are some good points and some interesting historical clarifications but too often it just devolves into the author ranting about how nobody is English (and he goes to lengths ro say english, not British) enough to be a proper sea power, ignoring the vast tracts of continental land and manpower that the British empire relied upon.
if you've got spare credits, are very english and like sea state politics you might like this otherwise you could suffer significant buyer's remorse.
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