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culture and eco nomies in the Mediterranean world of the 1300s, and the rise of the H ansa commercial empire in Northern E urope, the global empires of Portugal and Spain, the co mmercial d ominance of the Dutch in the 1600s, the naval challenge of the continental power of F rance, and the British naval supremacy (wh ich he dates from 1715), culminating in the Pax Britannica of the 1800s. More than half the book is taken up in th is later period, from 18 15 to the present. T his covers the rise of the United States to its present wo rldwide naval dominance, en co untering m any threats and diversions along the way, from the horrors of the American C ivil War to the dan gers posed by the rising naval powers of Germany and Japan . Necessarily, this work is "Eurocentric" -s imply because it was the fab led iro n m en and wooden ships of the European powers, then Britain and America, that played the shaping role in naval affairs. Subordin ate attention is paid to C hina's brief fling with overseas expansion, Mongol C hina's attemp ted invas ions of Japan, and J apan's attempted conquest of Korea, as well as Arab imperialism in the Indian Ocean, which was shattered overnight by the Portuguese incursion of the 1500s. Enough is said of those and o ther developments to place them in the wo rld scene, and to encourage further exploration. Reynolds is a practicing teacher of naval and civilian studen ts of modern naval affairs, and appropriately the closing chapters of this book go in to considerable detail on developments of the Cold War with the USSR fo llowin g Allied victory in Wo rld War II- a victory m ainly achieved by the continental powers of C hina and the USSR, and the m aritime powers of the US and Britain. This is valuable, info rmative stuff, illuminating the cutting-edge role of sea power in the history of mankind's adventure to date on our sea-girt planet. PETER STANFORD
The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail, by Donald A. Petri e (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 1999, l 52pp , illus, appen , biblio, index, ISBN 1- 55750-669 -8; $24 .95 hc) Donald Petrie, w ho is highly expert in the arcane field of th e historical maritime "Law of Na tions," has written an impor-
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