Maritime History

Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the India...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the ...

Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and t...

In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...

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

This historical analysis of the problems faced by the British navy during the War of 1739-1748 also sheds light on the character, limitations, and ...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Who ever thought they would one ...

This edited collection re-examines the relationship between art and the sea, reflecting growing interest in the intersections between art and marit...

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scie...

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friar...

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the historyand presento...

Though it has been some six centuries since explorer Zheng He visited Africa, scholar Li Xinfeng finds connections between Zheng's voyages and Chin...

This volume explores nonhuman animals involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sailas well as the myriad multispecies connections f...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOK 2024A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided th...

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited th...

Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operati...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Three and a half millennia of British Maritime history, from the Middle Bronze Age to the early 20th century ... T...

With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Tr...

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack Londons fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the oc...

With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Tr...

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern p...

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean.  Many of t...

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in nor...

Discover the fascinating and outrageously readable account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in ...

A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history. - Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the ...

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astron...

This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of sailor talk. The central argument is that sailor talk...

Wexford has always had a close relationship with the sea. One of the countys most famous sons, John Barry, is known as the Father of the US Navy an...

Both Tromp-class frigates entered service in 1975/-76. Their primary task was area air defense. They acted as flagships for the COMNLTG (Commander ...

As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable....

The suppression of piracy and other forms of maritime violence was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. Focusing on what was seen in t...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II  When he is at his best, as he often is...

An assessment of the work of the contractors who were commissioned by the Victualling Board to provision the fleet in this period. Provisioning th...