The First Fleets
Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630-1775
Will be published approx. on 15. May 2025
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-8173-2234-2 (ISBN)
Description
The American Revolution is generally considered the birth of the American naval tradition, but in The First Fleets naval scholar Benjamin C. Schaffer shows that Anglo-American governments possessed economic and political capital to maintain offensive and defensive fleets generations before the American Revolution.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 b&w figures - 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-2234-2 (9780817322342)
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E-Book
05/2025
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€89.99
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Person
Benjamin C. Schaffer is an instructor of early American history at the University of South Carolina.