This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Sunday, May 09, 2010)
 | | China Goes to Sea:
Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective
by Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, and Carnes Lord (editors) |
Naval Institute Press
544 pages, July 2009
Hardcover, 49.95
ISBN: 1591142423
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
China's turn toward the sea is evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its expanding merchant marine, its wide reach of offshore energy exploration, its growing fishing fleet, and its increasingly modern navy. This comprehensive assessment of China's potential as a genuine maritime power is both unbiased and apolitical. Unlike other works that view China in isolation, it places China in a larger world historical context. The authors, all authorities on their historical eras, examine cases of attempted maritime transformation through the ages, from the Persian Empire to the Soviet Union, and determine the reasons for success or failure.
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