Asia Looks Seaward
peace cooperation activities.’’ These missions are intensively maritime in nature, running the gamut from disaster reliefto miss ...
well find its way into Asian politics. It is equally plausible that Beijing and New Delhi will temper their enthusiasm for Mahan ...
powers—the main beneficiaries of interdependence—nonetheless plunged them- selves into a disastrous war over questions of honor. ...
CHAPTER 2 IMPERIAL CHINA AND THE SEA John Curtis Perry If you stand on Cape Agulhas, that needlelike promontory at the southernm ...
For Eurasia this formed the great rhythm of history over the course of many cen- turies. Gunpowder weapons would end the era of ...
high caloric efficiency, was both an economic and a strategic asset. It provided a lucrative export commodity and ensured that B ...
Perhaps we can divide those seagoing societies actively, using the ocean as source, arena, and avenue, into the maritime and the ...
interest in the sea. Attempting to answer this question lies beyond the dimen- sions of this paper, but perhaps geography of loc ...
People, both the highly privileged and the least fortunate, still sometimes travel by sea. Cruises are a high-growth industry. I ...
No major seaport cities would emerge on the Chinese coast to challenge the cultural and political authority of the traditional c ...
China thus stood in sharp contrast to Atlantic Europe. The southward shift of the Chinese state’s economic center of gravity wou ...
Seagoing ships were faster than those coursing inland waterways, but they required much larger crews for the amount of cargo car ...
supervised and taxed. By choice of China’s rulers, foreign merchants lived under their own laws, but they sometimes took Chinese ...
The first squadron was about the size of the entire earlier expedition. The second was even more immense, with 100,000 troops on ...
personalities and charismatic leadership, they did not emerge as a sustained, major political force. The maritime community did ...
world’s greatest power at sea. This primacy was the fruit of centuries of experience in maritime trade. At the same time the Por ...
well-traveled monsoonal pathways of trade with which the Chinese had long been familiar. China’s maritime career had really comm ...
as it might seem. The ships were constructed and sailed with the benefit of generations of salt-water knowledge behind them. And ...
CHAPTER 3 THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: LESSONS FROM BRITAIN’S STRATEGIC RETREAT FROM THE PACIFIC Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Th ...
region, it was luck—or chance or contingency, to use the more academic terms— that was the key determinant of the success of Bri ...
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