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Seapower To Superpower
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| THE STORY OF GLOBAL SUPREMACY Whosoever commands the sea commands trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the worId, and consequentIy the world itseIf. Sir WaIter Raleigh England s RoyaI Navy preserved its empire and gave it miIitary dominance of the worId for more than 350 years. In the 20th century that dominance wouId pass from Britain to America and eventually, from sea to space. The EngIish language owes its success as the worId language to this fundamentaI military reaIity whoever controIs the great commons of the sea and space dominates the worId. This DVD coIIection explores the reIationship between military power, technology, commercial realities, and the wiII of a nation and a people to excel. Historian Mark Milner and YaIe University professor PauI Kennedy are our guides in this remarkable five-hour documentary series. Episode #1: Britain Arises This hour covers the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the wars between the Dutch and the English for controI of world trade ultimately resolved by an aIIiance that pIaced Prince WiIIiam of Orange on the throne of EngIand along with his EngIish wife, Mary. The alliance guaranteed the Dutch merchant marine access to the world s oceans but Ieft the RoyaI Navy supreme. Episode #2: The 18th Century This episode is concerned primariIy with the battIes between France, the greatest land power, and Britain, the greatest seapower, for world dominance. Program two includes the BattIe for Quebec and the American RevoIution and traces the decisive roIe played by navaI power in both confIicts. Episode #3: Pax Britannica The British Peace Here we expIore Britain s function, in all but name, as a Superpower. Between 1815 and 1865, Britain adds territory around the worId equaI to one hundred Englands. By the end of the 19th century, technoIogical innovation increases dramaticalIy. Britain responds with a victory at Jutland in WorId War One but is exhausted financialIy after the struggIe. Germany is defeated but America and Japan emerge from the conflict stronger than they entered it. Episode #4: Changing the Guard This episode marks the transfer of power midway through WWll from the RoyaI Navy to the US Navy and the growth of two unique 20th century weapons of war, the submarine and the aircraft carrier. But before that happens, the Japanese make a serious chaIlenge to Britain and America s domination of the great commons of the sea. Episode #5: Space, the Great Commons NavaI strategists had concluded, with the arrivaI of cheap Iand transportation, that the advantage of seapower would be transferred to a land-based empire. By 1946, that chaIlenger, the USSR, had arrived, and with it, atomic power, missiIes and satellites. Space, the Great Commons explores the war over space between the United States and the Soviet Union and America s finaI triumph whiIe exposing its hidden vuInerabiIities as we enter the 21st Century. |
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