Tracing Britain's fortunes as a sea power from the Tudors to the present, Paul Kennedy's classic book, now with a new introduction, challenges the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves' and offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions of the nation's history.
Paul Kennedy is among the world's best-selling and most influential historians. Raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he took his doctorate in Oxford and began work shortly afterwards for the first great historian of WW2, Sir Basil Liddell Hart. He now teaches at Yale, and is the author or editor of nineteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (translated into over twenty languages), and Engineers of Victory- The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery is the best
single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to
us.
*Journal of Modern History*
As soon as it appeared in 1976, Paul M. Kennedy's magisterial
survey of the historical role and significance of British seapower
was recognized by serious naval historians as a work of first
importance ... This is by far the most important survey of British
Naval history since Sir Herbert Richmond's Statesmen and Sea Power
(1946), and in some ways it is more important ... the whole book
displays an immense historiographical grasp of a calibre that broad
surveys seldom attain. The author's unfailing powers of discernment
are further revealed by a sparkling and apt quotation on
practically every page.
*International History Review*
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