The Herring: Its Effect on the History of Britain (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Herring: Its Effect on the History of Britain Whatever may be the aerial developments of the future, the seas and the sea communications are to us exactly what land frontiers are to continental nations, and of these truths we must never for an instant lose sight. For those frontiers we fought and conquered in the seventeenth century when the principle involved was covered by the words Mare clausum, of Selden, as against the Mare liberum, of Grotius, and the herring fishery was a crucial point in the dispute. The question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.