Maritime History

A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearMany people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perrys expedition to open trade relations w...

Radio Caroline was the worlds most famous pirate radio station during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, but did the thousands of people tuning in re...

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...