The ocean in English history
Subtitle: being the Ford lectures
By: by James A. Williamson
Series: Ford lectures -- 1939-40
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: History; Discovery and exploration; British; Commerce; Discoveries in geography
Notes: "Reprinted photographically in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford, 1948 from sheets of the first edition."

The Ford lectures for 1939-40, delivered at Oxford university in 1940.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The discovery of America.; title: English enterprise in the Atlantic.; title: The propagandists of the Tudor period.; title: The Eastern seas.; title: The national interest in oceanic enterprise.; title: The opening of the Pacific.; title: The oceanic factor in the shaping of modern England.