Maritime History

Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Br...

As part of the Wheel Book series, The U.S. Naval Institute on the U.S. Coast Guard provides professional sea service officers with insights into th...

An excellent must-read for anyone about to deploy on anti-piracy operations (and for politicians and diplomats who ought to know about the practica...

Admiral Raoul Castex is France's most important modern naval strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence of Castex's origina...

Great Powers, Grand Strategies offers the analysis of a dozen experts on the "big picture" approaches to the South China Sea dispute. By exploring ...

Float Planes and Flying Boats is the first and only written history describing the Coast Guard’s contribution to early Naval Aviation’s development...

Historically, operations and studies regarding maritime security focus on individual threats (e.g., piracy, terrorism, narcotics, etc.) and individ...

When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.S. Navy sent a surveying expedition to the North Pacific. The officers of that expedition, 185...

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the...

Attempts to assemble the historic pattern of contributing factors which shaped the course of American naval development from 1776 to 1918. Origina...

When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.S. Navy sent a surveying expedition to the North Pacific. The officers of that expedition, 185...

This volume publishes for the first time, the journal kept by John Looker (?1670—1715) recording his service as ship’s surgeon on the Blackham Gall...

This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.S. Navy from 1873 to 1898. These dates bracket a dynamic quar...

Combat at Close Quarters presents the work of five renowned historians who describe and interpret the U.S. Navy's major combat operations in Southe...

Shows how Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in diffe...

Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of source...

The universe of actors involved in international cybersecurity includes both state actors and semi- and non-state actors, including technology comp...

The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine. Britain’s warships were her fi...

The sea and its relation to human life has always been a subject of fascination for historians. For the first time, this book looks at the field of...

An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807--a journey that has beco...

Fans of S.C. Stephens' Thoughtless series will love this story about a girl who is dating a headlining rock star, but unexpectedly falls for the le...

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land e...

*** Danish Historical Society Award Winner (2018) “Historical research result of the year” ***Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how th...

Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have p...

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. ...

Presents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and ...

The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign   The Allied liberation o...