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  • BRITAIN, CANADA AND THE NORTH PACIFIC: MARITIME ENTERPRISE AND DOMINION, 1778–1914
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    BRITAIN, CANADA AND THE NORTH PACIFIC: MARITIME ENTERPRISE AND DOMINION, 1778–1914
    BARRY M. GOUGH
    From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'. The studies collected here trace how, under the influences of the Royal Navy and British statecraft, the British came to dominate the area, with expeditions sent from London, Bombay...

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  • CHURCHILL AND FISHER
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    CHURCHILL AND FISHER
    BARRY GOUGH
    A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of the Admiralty and the ageing Admiral ‘Jacky’ Fisher as professional master and creator of Dreadnought, locked together in perilous destiny. Upon these ‘Titans at the Admiralty’ rested Allied command of the sea at the moment of its supr...

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  • THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
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    THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
    BARRY GOUGH
    Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britains naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the unpublished examination of her career by famed American historian of the Royal Nav...

    $179.00

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  • BRITANNIA'S NAVY ON THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, 1812–1914
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    BRITANNIA'S NAVY ON THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, 1812–1914
    BARRY GOUGH
    The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historia...

    $279.00

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  • HISTORICAL DREADNOUGHTS
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    HISTORICAL DREADNOUGHTS
    BARRY GOUGH
    This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these contrasting characters were to peel back the lid of historical secrecy that surrounde...

    $329.00

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  • HISTORICAL DREADNOUGHTS
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    HISTORICAL DREADNOUGHTS
    BARRY GOUGH
    An account of Arthur Marder, his famous sparring partner Captain Stephen Roskill, and their enduring quest for pre-eminence in the naval history field. This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century—the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Ros...

    $440.00

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