A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment PAPERBACK

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nTitle: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nPublication year: 2024\nISBN-13: 9781350451049\nISBN-10: 1350451045\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThis 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 thin.