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The Oxford Book of the Sea

The Oxford Book of the Sea

Raban, Jonathan

Oxford University Press

It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of writings which ponder its mystery.

A powerful and ...

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pvp.25,00 €

Lincoln and His Admirals

Lincoln and His Admirals

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until now, ...

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The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the ...

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Churchill and Sea Power

Churchill and Sea Power

Bell, Christopher M.

Oxford University Press

Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in 1915. Today, Churchill is regarded by many as an inept strategist ...

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Oxford World's Classics: The Sea-Wolf

Oxford World's Classics: The Sea-Wolf

London, Jack

Oxford University Press

Published in 1904, and drawing on London's own experience on board a sealing ship, The Sea-Wolf describes the struggle between the civilized and the pagan, between the values of the ruthless sea-captain, Wolf Larsen, and the moral, literary Humphrey Van Weyden.

One of his most popular novels, it also reveals London's preoccupation with the Nietzschean ...

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pvp.14,80 €

South Sea Tales

South Sea Tales

Stevenson, Robert L.

Oxford University Press

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but ...

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The Black Sea "A History"

The Black Sea "A History"

King, Charles

Oxford University Press

The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more important ...

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pvp.31,00 €

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea "Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empir"

A Nation upon the Ocean Sea "Portugal's Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empir"

Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken

Oxford University Press

With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean Sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews, Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by ...

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pvp.23,00 €

The Great Ocean "Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush"

The Great Ocean "Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush"

Igler, David

Oxford University Press

The Great Ocean examines the convergence and fragmentation of Pacific worlds during a period of rapidly expanding trade, indigenous depopulation, and scientific investigations. With a particular focus on the eastern Pacific in the decades between the 1770s and the 1840s, this study uncovers world history in the coastal localities where voyagers, traders, hunters, and native ...

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The Civil War at Sea

The Civil War at Sea

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a masterful history of the Civil War navies both Union and Confederate and places them within the broader context of the emerging industrial age.

Symonds begins with an account of the dramatic pre-war revolution in ...

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The Age of Titans "The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies"

The Age of Titans "The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies"

Murray, William

Oxford University Press

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between the Hellenistic Age has never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model of an Athenian ...

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pvp.49,00 €

Neptune "The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings"

Neptune "The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings"

Symonds, Craig

Oxford University Press

D-Day June 6, 1944 is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the liberation of Western Europe. Though it has been studied, discussed, and debated extensively, histories of ...

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