A Fortified Sea - The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency

About the author

Pedro Luengo is professor of the history of art at the Universidad de Sevilla. He is author of Global Architecture for Eighteenth-Century Beijing: Building Qing Enlightenments and Manila, 1645 and coeditor of From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories.

Gene Allen Smith is professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is author of The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812, coeditor of From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories, coauthor of In Harm’s Way: A History of the American Military Experience, and coeditor of Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s, among other works.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro (EDT)/ Smith Luengo
• Assisted by: Pedro Luengo (Editor), Gene Allen Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780817361525
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6152-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Maritime Currents: History and
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous