Maritime History

Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and pu...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally hel...

From the grisly cover photo of a reproduction gibbet to ghostly folk tales, the topic never fails to thrill. Dan Conlin's Pirates of the Atlantic i...

This is a story drawn from the early days of the Canadian Navy, an account of four young Canadian seamen who were the Navy's first casualties at th...

... stunningly beautiful... gorgeously illustrated. (Spicer) is a master storyteller and meticulous researcher, and The Age of Sail is a book well ...

Kongo, meaning indestructable, was the Imperial Japanese Navy's first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class, which a...

Across the 19th century, maritime globalization expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace, transforming transport and communications over the sea...

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...