Author: WILLIAMSON, J. A.
Title: The Ocean In English History. Being The Ford Lectures.
Description: Reprint Edition; 8vo; pp. (viii), 208; index; dustjacket; a good copy. Oxford, University Press, (1948). A survey of British activities in oceanic exploration and long-distance trade, from the discovery of America to the opening of the nineteenth century, The principles and policies are examined and their reactions on English life dealt with, leading to the considerations of oceanic enterprise as one of the factors that have produced the modern industrial system.'

Keywords: British oceanic exploration trade discovery America