How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military securi

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves" (Updated to 1900) by William Henry Giles Kingston. DigiCat Pub

This interdisciplinary study examines changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context.

Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typ