Empire of the North Atlantic : : The Maritime Struggle for North America, Second Edition / / Gerald S. Graham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Graham, Gerald S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1958
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)

This book is an exploration and interpretation of three centuries of European rivalry and expansion in and around the North Atlantic. Professor Graham tells the story from the first conquest of the ocean by the armed sailing ship at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wooden ship of the line in the nineteenth. Gradually, in competition with Spain and then with Holland and finally with France, England achieved command of the seas, until, by the time of the Napoleonic Wars, despite her relative weakness in manpower, she was able to extend her Empire from its centre in the North Atlantic to the distant reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Maps -- I. The Supremacy of Spain -- II. Foundations of French Sea Power -- III. The Rise of English Sea Power -- IV. The War of the League of Augsburg -- V. The War of the Spanish Succession -- VI. Beginnings of the Duel for Empire -- VII. The First Conquest of Louisbourg -- VIII. Prelude to Conquest 1749-1757 -- IX. From Louisbourg to Quebec -- X. The Break-Up of the First Atlantic Empire, 1775-1782 -- XI. The Outskirts of War, 1793-1812. -- XII. The American Adventure of 1812 -- XIII. The Age of Iron and Steam -- XIV. The End of Pax Britannica -- Appendices -- Index