Maritime History

Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the India...

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Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and t...

In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and ...

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 ...

This edited collection re-examines the relationship between art and the sea, reflecting growing interest in the intersections between art and marit...

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scie...

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friar...

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the historyand presento...

Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and Chin...

This volume explores nonhuman animals involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sailas well as the myriad multispecies connections f...