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For hundreds of years, maritime expansion represented the only way to reach distant shores, to attack enemies across channels of water, to explore uncharted territories, to make trade with regional neighbors and to connect the comprised empires. Leading directly into the 20th century, this was the chief mode of making war, maintaining occupations, colonizing lands and conducting the transport of goods acquired by trade or force. Peter Padfield theorized that ultimately, British maritime power was decisive in creating breathing space for liberal democracy in the world, as opposed to the autocratic states of continental Europe like Spain, France, Prussia and Russia. The Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, Hitler and Stalin all failed to find a strategy that would defeat the maritime empires, which controlled the world's trade routes and raw materials. Successful maritime powers like Britain and, in the 20th Century, the United States, required coastlines with deep harbors and security from aggressive neighbors that Germany, France and Russia lacked. This allowed them to concentrate on trade and commerce, and to develop powerful mercantile classes that won a share of power in government. Britain and Holland were the "first supreme maritime powers of the modern age", succeeded by the United States after the world wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45, and the fact that democratic institutions developed first in relatively open societies like these was not coincidental. Of course, the United States was a very weak maritime power in the 18th Century and its navy hardly existed, yet the Battle of Chesapeake Bay in 1781 was the key event that enabled it to win its independence. It depended on French and Spanish sea power to divert the British Navy to other theaters of the war, such as India, the Caribbean, Gibraltar or the defense of the home islands and in the end this strategy was successful enough so that at a crucial moment of the war, Britain temporarily lost its maritime supremacy in North American waters.

On June 06, 1944, the biggest combined naval, military and air operation ever contrived took place, code-named Operation Overlord (Commemorative pp).

This paper discusses the Wasteland as an exemplary text of the Modernist Period and the French Lieutenant's Woman as an exemplary test of the Post-Modernist period. It posits that Modernism and Post-Modernism cannot be understood by reference to common features alone, but also as responses to their respective social, cultural, and political contexts. It concludes that both works became exemplary partly because they were so unlike any literature before them. Although unconventional, each was familiar enough to be contextualized in the course of literary history, meaning they unique in a way that could be articulated with the terminology available to literary critics of their time.

The fall of the Ottoman Empire did not come all at once. Nor did it come from entirely inside the Empire itself. Rather, the geographical, military, and religious policies of great European powers did help influence the…

Put-off by Europe's lag in paying off debts from the First World War, the United States remained committed to a policy of neutrality for the first several years of World War Two. Several issues led to American…

Healthcare: Cultural Influences on Provision of Healthcare

The Cold War is a generic name given to a certain period in the history of humanity after the Second World War, characterized by conflicts and tensions between the two great powers at the time and subsequently their…

The Prelude, Wordsworth's autobiographical poem, is long-winded and sometimes unevenly moving. He seems to know very well what matters to him but he cannot predict its presence nor beckon it.

The American Red Cross (ARC) is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance to victims, relief to the disaster stricken and also education to the victims of disaster in the U.S.A.

World War I or what was commonly called "The War to End All Wars" resulted in the collapse of four aristocracies and many of the great Empires of Europe. In its aftermath a traumatic world was plunged into chaos and…