Maritime history

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Tom Cunliffe is one of the biggest names in the sailing world an internationally renowned journalist and speaker, and the go-to guru when the BBC wants a presenter for a new TV series about maritime interests.

Since 1977 Nathan Miller's concise history of the U.

This book is a new analysis of maritime life among the Mycenaean Greeks (c.

Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775-1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War.

The Kyrenia Ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC, which sank off the north coast of Cyprus, was excavated between 1968 and 1972 under the direction of Michael L.

Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information transfer during the early modern period.

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Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established.

A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations.

The deeds and personalities of famous pirates have received significant attention in recent years: however, no detailed depiction of their vessels has ever been produced.

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree.

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

The conception and evolution-through inter-war tensions, global war, and years of Cold War hostility-of the Royal Navy's large fleet destroyers.

A biography chronicling one man’s service during World War II as a Royal Navy commander and his career before & after in the tea business.

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A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations.

Capturing the disbelief, the chaos and the terror of the fateful night the Titanic sank 100 years ago, Titanic on Trial brings to life the tragedy through the voices of those whosurvived it.

Demonstrates how the activists who mobilized the Age of Atlantic Revolutions'' greatest social movements worked together across nations.

Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy.

Much has been written on marine fishing and the migratory eel and salmon.

This is the story of the unusually long and interesting career of a small Scottish schooner spent primarily in the southern hemisphere.

During the nineteenth century, over 1.

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair.

Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 - the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau.

In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84.

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After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships.

The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world.

David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy.

The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution.

The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers.

A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J.

The Royal Navy's operations in World War II started on 3 September 1939 and continued until the surrender of Japan in August 1945 - there was no 'phoney war' at sea.

At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests.

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution.

Immortalized by David Farragut's apothegm, "e;Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,"e; the Battle of Mobile Bay remains one of history's great naval engagements, a contest between two admirals trained in the same naval tradition who once fought under the same flag.

A revised edition of the First Edition Edited by Charles T.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants' sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe's cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia.

The Royal Navy's attack on Taranto in 1940 heralded a new age of warfare.

Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones.

While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres.

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic.

Dharmanomics seeks to present a coherent and structured economic framework based on the idea of Dharma for at least 1500 years.

Agents of Innovation examines the influence of the General Board of the Navy as agents of innovation during the period between World Wars I and II.

Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean?

An annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development and service of the world's warships.