El mar y la civilización

This is a monumental work on world history through the maritime prism. From how humans began their first contacts with each other thanks to the oceans, rivers or lakes, to how products, languages, religions and entire cultures spread throughout the world through maritime routes, mixing civilizations and defining the world and the to be human as it is today. The sea and civilization is a fascinating journey through naval feats, from the first great migrations to the great maritime commercial cultures of ancient times, from the rowing boats of the Song dynasty to the gigantic aircraft carriers and cargo ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure illuminating history with a new and original perspective in which the sea is the supreme territory, after all 70% of the world is water. But above all Paine explains to us something that had not been so studied, how the creation and fall of empires throughout history are connected with the sea. A cyclopean historical work full of details and revealing conclusions that has become a reference book.