Maritime History

Often serving as an important node through which West Asian and South Asian maritime trade with China were maintained, maritime Southeast Asia rema...

A gorgeous, sweeping epic ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose'WASHINGTON POST One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY S...

Originally published as Larchéologie navale by Editions Errance/Actes Sud (Arles, France) in 2005, this new revised and expanded edition is in a co...

Few maritime landscapes in the Great Lakes remain so deeply and clearly inscribed by successive cultures as the St. Clair systema river, delta, and...

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 15...

Wise, compassionate, and urgent. Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland A Bookseller Nonfiction Editors Choice for March 2024 Plunge into the depth...

No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. There was no way to predict just how mon...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...

In 1789, as the Bounty made its return voyage through the western Pacific Ocean, disgruntled crewmen seized control from their captain, William Bli...

Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutl...

The book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the worlds trades and ec...

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Who ever thought they would one ...

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, med...

Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, the...

_Empire Javelin_ an American-built LSI (Landing Ship, Infantry) in Royal Navy service, played an important role on D-Day. She carried A Company 116...

For Ireland, the year 1798 saw a major rebellion breaking out against rule from London, a time in which Britain was in its fifth year of a hard-fou...

There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the wor...

The powerful German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was stalked and engaged on 26 December 1943 by a superior Allied naval task force off the North Cape ...

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wh...

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book...