| Empire of the North Atlantic: The Maritime Struggle for North America, Second Edition Contributor(s): Graham, Gerald S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1487599188 ISBN-13: 9781487599188 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1958 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Pre-confederation (to 1867) - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is an exploration and interpretation of three centuries of European rivalry and expansion in and around the North Atlantic. Professor Graham tells the story from the first conquest of the ocean by the armed sailing ship at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wooden ship of the line in the nineteenth. Gradually, in competition with Spain and then with Holland and finally with France, England achieved command of the seas, until, by the time of the Napoleonic Wars, despite her relative weakness in manpower, she was able to extend her Empire from its centre in the North Atlantic to the distant reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans. |
Contributor Bio(s): Graham, Gerald S.: - Gerald S. Graham (1903-1993) was Rhodes Professor of History in King's College, University of London. |