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Roger Morriss - The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy - 9780521768092 - V9780521768092
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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy

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Description for The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy Hardcover. Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation's global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century. Series: Cambridge Military Histories. Num Pages: 458 pages, 36 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBTM; HBW; JWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 846.
British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power at sea and overseas. He demonstrates how developments in culture, experience and control in central government affected the supply of ships, manpower, food, transport and ordnance as well as the support of the army, permitting the maintenance of armed forces of unprecedented size and their projection to distant stations. He reveals ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Military Histories
Number of Pages
458
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521768092
SKU
V9780521768092
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99-1

About Roger Morriss
Roger Morriss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Exeter, and General Editor of the Navy Records Society. His previous publications include Naval Power and British Culture, 1760–1850: Public Trust and Government Ideology (2004).

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