How long does it take to read The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783?
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. Mahan takes about 10 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1890. 557 pages, about 153,175 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 61 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Though technological advances over the last century have revolutionized warfare, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 remains a classic text on the history, strategy, and comprehension of commercial and military command of the high seas. The first president of the U.S. Naval War College, Alfred Thayer Mahan demonstrates through historical examples that the rise and fall of sea power and the wealth of nations have always been linked with commercial and military command of the sea. Mahan describes successful naval strategies employed in the past--from Greek and Roman times through the Napoleonic Wars--with an intense focus on England's rise as a sea power in the eighteenth century. This book provides not only an overview of naval tactics but also a lucid exposition of geographic, economic, and social factors governing the maintenance of sea power. -- This description applies to the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: History, Modern, Modern History, Modern Naval history, Naval History, Naval history, Modern, Sea-power
