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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815

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The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. It describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organizing of these last three

victualling, money and management

took the Navy to the heart of the British state. It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
6 October 2006
Pages
1008
ISBN
9780141026909

The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. It describes not just battles, voyages and cruises but how the Navy was manned, how it was supplied with timber, hemp and iron, how its men (and sometimes women) were fed, and above all how it was financed and directed. It was during the century and a half covered by this book that the successful organizing of these last three

victualling, money and management

took the Navy to the heart of the British state. It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated and mutually dependent Britain and the Navy then became.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
6 October 2006
Pages
1008
ISBN
9780141026909