Maritime History

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...

Children at sea faced even more drastic separations from loved ones than those sent 'home' from India or those packed off to English boarding schoo...

Explores the lived experiences of the women of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. This book explores the lived experiences...

Claiming Indigenous Plant Knowledge: From Botanical Exchanges to Resource Extraction in the Indian Ocean World examines the collection and document...

Obsidian, a shiny volcanic glass, was first used to make vessels in the mid-sixth millennium BC in the Near East, although other stone had been exp...

At a time before budget air travel, when the ocean liner ruled the seas, the demand for speed, regularity and luxury on the transatlantic route lau...

The oldest and most renowned Dutch university, Leiden was an attractive proposition for travelling foreign students in the seventeenth and eighteen...

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subj...

Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both si...

Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands ...

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newsp...

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific. As such, th...

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1...

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

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo cla...

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo cla...

Theres a sea lover in every Brit.The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 has been keeping people in tune with the gloriously fickle British weather for a ...

An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success   Between 1941 a...

Constitué de plus de 15 chapitres, ce livre fait un tour dhorizon exhaustif du sous-marin moderne et livre une vision de lavenir sur cette arme red...

This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Be...

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War   The 1830s is an overlooked period in Ameri...