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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
N.A.M. Rodger
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paperback. Describes 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. This work 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 were fed, and how it was financed and directed. Num Pages: 1008 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 680.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
1008
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141026909
SKU
V9780141026909
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About N.A.M. Rodger
N.A.M. Rodger is Professor of Naval History at Exeter University and Anderson Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum. He is the author of The Wooden World and The Admiralty as well as the highly acclaimed first volume of his naval history of Britain, The Safeguard of the Sea (available in Penguin).
Reviews for The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
I have never reviewed a book that has given me more pleasure … a masterpiece
Kevin Myers
Mail on Sunday
A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of Britain … it is likely to be regarded as one of the greatest works of historical scholarship of our age
Paul Kennedy
The Sunday Times
Magisterial … triumphantly succeeds in moving the Royal Navy back to centre-stage in our islands’ story
Andrew Roberts
Sunday Telegraph
Quite outstanding
Sir Michael Howard
The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
Stunning … By the time the book closes there is no doubt who holds command
Simon Heffer
Literary Review
Monumental … Rodger is our finest naval historian
Saul David
Daily Telegraph
Exciting and original … Here is that rarest of all historians, the expert with the generalist’s approach
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Guardian
Truly in a class of its own … at turns witty, provocative and incisive … you finish it wishing for more
F. J. M. Scott
History Today
Scholarly and erudite, but also a thrilling story, told with wit and verve
Economist, Books of the Year
Splendid … There is plenty of old-fashioned narrative in this encyclopaedic blockbuster … the writing advances across the pages like a squadron of dreadnoughts
John Parfitt
Spectator
Kevin Myers
Mail on Sunday
A great work of history … A truly satisfying book that one puts down with regret … Nothing written during the past century, perhaps ever, approaches N. A. M. Rodger’s ambitious and masterly three-volume Naval History of Britain … it is likely to be regarded as one of the greatest works of historical scholarship of our age
Paul Kennedy
The Sunday Times
Magisterial … triumphantly succeeds in moving the Royal Navy back to centre-stage in our islands’ story
Andrew Roberts
Sunday Telegraph
Quite outstanding
Sir Michael Howard
The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
Stunning … By the time the book closes there is no doubt who holds command
Simon Heffer
Literary Review
Monumental … Rodger is our finest naval historian
Saul David
Daily Telegraph
Exciting and original … Here is that rarest of all historians, the expert with the generalist’s approach
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Guardian
Truly in a class of its own … at turns witty, provocative and incisive … you finish it wishing for more
F. J. M. Scott
History Today
Scholarly and erudite, but also a thrilling story, told with wit and verve
Economist, Books of the Year
Splendid … There is plenty of old-fashioned narrative in this encyclopaedic blockbuster … the writing advances across the pages like a squadron of dreadnoughts
John Parfitt
Spectator