Maritime History

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 ...

Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durÉ...

Chinese traders and explorers first visited the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, in the early fourteenth century. The traveler Wang Da...

Chinese traders and explorers first visited the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, in the early fourteenth century. The traveler Wang Da...

In 1972 an image became an icon: Blue Marble, a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globes wa...

The notion of a Pax Britannicaa concept implying that Britains overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleons def...

For its first eighty-five years, the United States was only a minor naval power. Its fledgling fleet had been virtually annihilated during the War ...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and ...

The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to p...

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling...

The Newport Medieval Ship is the most important late-medieval merchant vessel yet recovered. Built c.1450 in northern Spain, it foundered at Newpor...

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before mov...

Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a masterful ...

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fa...

Outlaws of the Atlantic turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of seafaring adventure, not from the perspective of admira...

37 stories of the world's greatest shipwrecks, discoveries,  mysteries, and disappearances, with illustrated color maps highlighting each of these ...

The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth c...