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This text charts the epic struggle between Great Britain and revolutionary and Napoleonic France, revealing both the hidden forces beneath the surface of events and the strategies and battle tactics which ensured Britain the final victory. In Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, Peter Padfield covered the rise of the Dutch to supreme naval and commercial power in the 17th century and their displacement by the British, followed by the 18th-century struggle between Great Britain and Bourbon France. He now explores the contrasts between British power based on trade and sea control and French power based on territorial conquest, and shows how their respective societies were imprinted with irreconcilably different ways of thought and systems of government and finance. He presents the French Revolution and Napoleon in a radical light as essentially regressive, Britain, for better or worse, as the progressive herald of modern liberties. The reader is placed on the gun deck, amid the cannon, smoke, blood and death, or alongside the great leaders, Pitt, Nelson, Wellington or Napoleon Bonaparte.… (plus d'informations)
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Introduction: In 'Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind' I suggested that we, the liberal western nations, are the heirs of maritime supremacy: that is to say, our beliefs and the present dominance of those beliefs throughout much of the world are the result, not of any natural progression of the human mind towards the rational or the good, but rather a consequence of the global distribution of sea and land masses which has conferred strategic advantage on powers able to use and dominate the seas.
1: The French Revolution is represented as a turning point in western civilization when the ideas of the 'Enlightenment' assumed political form.
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The exhibition proved a huge success, drawing thousands of visitors from around the world. And if Queen Victoria's description of the opening on 1 May as 'the greatest day in our history' was influenced a little by pride in her beloved Albert, whose 'dearest name is immortalized with this great conception', when viewed objectively, the Great Exhibition can be seen as a demonstration of political freedom and the achievements of peace; hitherto Great Britain's historic triumphs had been on the seas and fields of war.
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This text charts the epic struggle between Great Britain and revolutionary and Napoleonic France, revealing both the hidden forces beneath the surface of events and the strategies and battle tactics which ensured Britain the final victory. In Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, Peter Padfield covered the rise of the Dutch to supreme naval and commercial power in the 17th century and their displacement by the British, followed by the 18th-century struggle between Great Britain and Bourbon France. He now explores the contrasts between British power based on trade and sea control and French power based on territorial conquest, and shows how their respective societies were imprinted with irreconcilably different ways of thought and systems of government and finance. He presents the French Revolution and Napoleon in a radical light as essentially regressive, Britain, for better or worse, as the progressive herald of modern liberties. The reader is placed on the gun deck, amid the cannon, smoke, blood and death, or alongside the great leaders, Pitt, Nelson, Wellington or Napoleon Bonaparte.
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