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The Influence of Sea Power on Ancient History

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This book is a survey of the various attempts to control the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Starr demonstrates that control of the seas was not always a strategic necessity in the ancient world.

His theory is an important corrective to the influential teachings of the strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

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Oxford University Press Inc
0195056671 / 9780195056679
Paperback / softback
09/02/1989
United States
128 pages, 4 maps
160 grams
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