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A survey of the activities of the British navy in the Caribbean from the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake through the great wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries against the Dutch, Spanish and French and Britain's declining role thereafter.

A survey of the activities of the British navy in the Caribbean from the voyages of sixteenth century English adventurers such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake through the great wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries against the Dutch, Spanish and French and Britain's declining role thereafter

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Aims and plans -- PART I Techniques and practices -- 1 The origins of Hellenistic diplomacy -- 2 Royal marriages -- 3 Cities, summits, states, envoys -- PART II Diplomacy in action - the East -- 4 The diplomacy of the earlier Syrian Wars (274-241) -- 5 Aegean diplomacy: Ptolemy I to Aratos of Sikyon -- 6 The diplomacy of Antiochos III - I: the Greek world -- PART III Diplomacy in the West -- 7 Ionian Sea diplomacy -- 8 The diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - I -- 9 The diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - II

"Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of Macedon, the political running was made by kings, and it is their work and loves and experience which is the subject here. Romes expansion extinguished a series of monarchies and pushed back the area which was ruled by kings for a time, but the process of building a republican empire eventually rebounded on the city, and the Romans empire came to be ruled by an emperor who was in fact a facsimile of a Hellenistic king. Rather than attempting a narrative of the various kingdoms, John Grainger takes a thematic approach, considering various aspects of Hellenistic kingship in turn. This allows him to highlight the common features as well as the differences across the various dynasties. How did one become king? How was a smooth succession secured and what happened when it was not? What were the duties of a king, and what were the rewards and distractions? These are just a few of the interesting facets examined in this original and fascinating book."--Dust jacket