Ian Garrick-Mason

Ruling the waves | 22 November 2018

In contrast to land-based empires, maritime states such as England, Venice and the Dutch Republic were always on the side of freedom, argues Andrew Lambert

issue 24 November 2018

  • Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict that Made the Modern World

    Andrew Lambert

    Yale, pp. 399

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