Maritime History

This volume covers a period when Europeans were making great advances in the production and application of pure knowledge, especially in the fie...

On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the firs...

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadwa...

For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. Durin...

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European so...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian...

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In April 1942, the Combined Flee...

We may think of globalism as a recent development, but its origins date back to century and beyond, when courageous seafarers pioneered routes acro...

For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many historie...

Five weeks after the withdrawal of the legendary Rotterdam (V), Holland America Line introduced the Rotterdam (VI) in November 1997. With her gross...

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 millio...

Just as the sea has played a pivotal role in the connectivity of people, economies and cultures, it has also provided a common platform for inter-d...

'An exceptional book. Sailing Alone belongs on the very small shelf of the true classics of the sea' Peter Nichols, author of Sea Change and A Voya...

Meet the people connected to Titanic in a very personal way. Through a tremendous display of memorabilia items some of them very personal you wil...

Pirates have long captured the imagination with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches and buried treasure. But what was life really...

Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of th...

Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent boo...

An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun. Roddy Doyle ...

This book is the first modern analysis of the coasting trade in Elizabethan England. Drawing on a significant body of evidence, including evidence ...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

With echoes ofUnbroken; the derring-do and bravado ofThe Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie ofBand of Brothers, this is the World War I...

Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian a...

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and pra...

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) is a work of naval history and strategy by Alfred Thayer Mahan. Drawing on decades of experience as ...