The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain, 1649-1815

N. A. M. Rodger

ISBN 10: 0141026901 / ISBN 13: 9780141026909

Published by Penguin Books, 2006

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Cover very creased. Dog-eared.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain, 1649-1815
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141026901
• ISBN 13: 9780141026909
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Marine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).