Naval Power

JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an authority on early modern British and continental European history, with special interest in international relations, military history, the press, and historical atlases. A prolific historian, he is the author of over sixty books in addition to over a dozen edited volumes. Among his most recently published books are The English Seaborne Empire (Yale University Press, 2004); Rethinking Military History (Routledge, 2004); The Hanoverians: The History of the Dynasty (Hambledon& London, 2004); Using History (Hodder Arnold, 2005); and George III: America's Last King (Yale University Press, 2006).

'Jeremy Black's Naval Power emphasises the important role that control of the sea has played globally in shaping the history of nations, individually and collectively, over the last five centuries.' -- Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB, Formerly First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, Royal Navy

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