Maritime History

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hund...

One of a two-ship class assault ships commissioned in 1967. Incorporating a large docking well aft, which could accommodate up to four medium landi...

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

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the Eur...

Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, th...

Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an ext...

Throughout much of history, imperial China has exhibited a seemingly capricious relationship with the sea. At times, it has welcomed commerce and t...

A vogue for travel stunts flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland tr...

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime ...

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

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, ...

This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigrap...

Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Medit...

The ship transcends the descriptive categories of place, vehicle and artefact; it is a cosmos, which requires its own cosmology. This is the subjec...

'A worthy addition to any bookshelf.', The Naval Review A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in ...

[A] striking, thoroughly researched depiction of just how much persistence and inventiveness it took for a woman in Colonial America to retain secu...

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping ...

A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been ...

For over a decade this annual has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened in the naval world in the previous twelve months, comb...

The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance tr...

In 1769, the Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant admired Stockton-on-Tees as a 'handsome town' with a 'remarkably fine high street'. Only a century earl...

From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West hav...

Chinas status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal r...

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping ...