The sea and civilzation : a maritime history of the world /
Paine, Lincoln
The sea and civilzation : a maritime history of the world / Lincoln Paine. - First Vintage Books edition - New York : Vintage Books, 2015. - xxxv, 744 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) 25 cm
Includes bibliographic references and index
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.
in English
978-1-101-97035-5
Ocean and civilization
Naval history
Naval art and science--History
Navigation--History
Sea-power--History
History--Military--Naval
History--Oceania
Transportation--Ships & shipbuilding--History
Naval art and science
Navigation
Sea-power
910.45 P16s 2015
The sea and civilzation : a maritime history of the world / Lincoln Paine. - First Vintage Books edition - New York : Vintage Books, 2015. - xxxv, 744 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) 25 cm
Includes bibliographic references and index
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.
in English
978-1-101-97035-5
Ocean and civilization
Naval history
Naval art and science--History
Navigation--History
Sea-power--History
History--Military--Naval
History--Oceania
Transportation--Ships & shipbuilding--History
Naval art and science
Navigation
Sea-power
910.45 P16s 2015