TY - BOOK AU - Paine, Lincoln TI - The sea and civilzation : : a maritime history of the world SN - 978-1-101-97035-5 AV - 910.45 P16s 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Ocean and civilization KW - Naval history KW - Naval art and science KW - History KW - Navigation KW - Sea-power KW - Military KW - Naval KW - Oceania KW - Transportation KW - Ships & shipbuilding N1 - 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 ER -