a maritime history of the world Paine, Lincoln creator text xx New York Vintage Books 2015 First Vintage Books edition monographic und

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xxxv, 744 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) 25 cm 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. Lincoln Paine. Includes bibliographic references and index in English 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 978-1-101-97035-5 251212 20260803094228.0