Paine, Lincoln <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographic references and index 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>in English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1-101-97035-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ocean and civilization<br/>Naval history<br/>Naval art and science--History<br/>Navigation--History<br/>Sea-power--History<br/>History--Military--Naval<br/>History--Oceania<br/>Transportation--Ships & shipbuilding--History<br/>Naval art and science<br/>Navigation<br/>Sea-power
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>910.45 P16s 2015