A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment

This volume covers a period when Europeans were making great advances in the production and application of pure knowledge, especially in the fields of navigation and discovery. Thus European powers gained empires around the globe and the benefits that came with them, while the rest of the world had to be content with supplying the raw material (i.e labour, bullion, wood, plants, ore) of these good things. This would not have been possible without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474299040
• ISBN13: 9781474299046
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"