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Britannia's dragon: a naval history of Wales

机译：不列颠尼亚的龙：威尔士的海军历史

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The Welsh nation generates any number of stereotypes in the popular imagination. For many, it is a land of rugged mountains, Celtic druids and neo-romantic poetry; more recently, the mind might wander to the smooth baritone of Tom Jones or the (occasional) prowess of the Welsh rugby team. Whatever the association, Wales's renown remains firmly fixed in its terrestrial geography and on land-based pursuits. Rarely, if ever, is it considered a 'maritime nation'. As someone who grew up in a small Welsh seaside town, this has always surprised me: Wales is, after all, surrounded by water on three sides, while the view from even the highest mountain inevitably leads the eye towards the vast expanses of water to the north, west and south of the country. Nonetheless, it is the terrestrial border with England which has dominated Welsh history. Across this frontier came invasions, resources, commerce, ideas and people, and it is these movements that have dominated the work of the many scholars who have analysed the history of the Welsh nation. Its engagement with the sea therefore remains neglected, and often ignored, and so we must be thankful for this authoritative new book by J. David Davies. Wales, he argues, is and was a maritime nation and also a naval one. Naval warfare, he contends, has been central to Welsh history, deciding the fate of the nation on frequent occasions and also shaping its society, culture and identity. This remains a history largely unknown to academics and the public, however, and Britannia's dragon is therefore something new and distinctive: the first naval history of Wales ever written.
机译：威尔士民族在大众的想象中产生了许多成见。对许多人来说，这里是崎mountains不平的山脉，凯尔特人的德鲁伊和新浪漫主义诗歌的土地。最近，人们可能会转向汤姆·琼斯（Tom Jones）柔和的男中音或威尔士橄榄球队（偶尔）的英勇表现。无论是哪种协会，威尔士的声誉始终牢牢地固定在其地域地理和陆地探索上。如果有的话，它很少被认为是“海上国家”。作为在威尔士海滨小镇上长大的人，这总是让我感到惊讶：威尔士毕竟被三面环水，而即使从最高的山上眺望，也不可避免地将目光投向了广阔的水域。该国的北部，西部和南部。尽管如此，统治威尔士历史的还是与英国的陆地边界。遍及这一领域的是入侵，资源，商业，思想和人民，正是这些运动主导了许多分析威尔士民族历史的学者的著作。因此，它与海洋的交往仍然被忽略，并且经常被忽略，因此，我们必须对戴维斯（J. David Davies）的这一权威性新书表示感谢。他认为，威尔士曾经是，曾经是一个海上国家，也是一个海军国家。他认为，海战一直是威尔士历史的中心，它决定着该国的命运，也决定着它的社会，文化和特性。然而，这仍然是一个学术和公众几乎不了解的历史，因此，不列颠尼亚的巨龙因此是一种新颖而独特的东西：威尔士有史以来的第一次海军历史。

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