HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Paine, Lincoln P.     Subjects     Ocean and civilization.     Naval history.     Naval art and science -- History.     Navigation -- History.     Sea-power -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Paine, Lincoln P.       by title:      The sea and civiliza...         MARC Display

The sea and civilization : a maritime history of the world / Lincoln Paine. by Paine, Lincoln P. New York : Knopf, 2013. Subjects Ocean and civilization.   Naval history.   Naval art and science -- History.   Navigation -- History.   Sea-power -- History. Electronic Resource 9781400044092.jpg ISBN:  9781400044092 (hardback) 140004409X (hardback) Description:  xxxv, 744 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First Edition. Contents:  Taking to the water -- The river and seas of ancient Egypt -- Bronze Age seafaring -- Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Mediterranean -- Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean -- Chasing the monsoons -- Continent and archipelagoes in the East -- The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean -- Northern Europe through the Viking Age -- The Silk Road of the seas -- China looks seaward -- The medieval Mediterranean and Europe -- The golden age of maritime Asia -- The world encompassed -- The birth of global trade -- State and sea in the age of European expansion -- Northern Europe ascendant -- "Annihilation of space and time" -- Naval power in steam and steel -- The maritime world since the 1950s. Requests:  0 Summary:  A retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 910.45 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.45 Paine Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.45 Pa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.