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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Epigraph
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations and Maps
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: Seapower as Culture
• 1   Creating Seapower Identity
• 2   Constructing a Seapower: Athens, Democracy and Empire
• 3   Burning the Carthaginian Fleet
• 4   Trade, War and Ceremony: The Venetian Seapower State
• 5   ‘To What Great Profit Are We Opening the Sea’: The Dutch Seapower State
• 6   Sea States and Overseas Empires: A Problem of Perspective
• 7   The Limits of Continental Naval Power: Absolutism, Command Economies and One-Party States
• 8   England: The Last Seapower
• 9   Seapower Today
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Cultural Seapowers: A Conceptual Aide-Mémoire
• Glossary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index