Maritime history

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The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world.

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service's core values.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Passamaquoddy Bay lies between Maine and New Brunswick at the mouth of the St.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment.

New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56 (1877).

A visually stunning account of how naval conflict was recorded and planned, using contemporary mapping.

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.

Marine archaeologist Dr Innes McCartney reveals for the first time the location and state of the wrecks of all 25 warships sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government.

The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on the inland lakes of North America: the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

Mit der Lustreise zur See der AUGUSTA VICTORIA begann im Winter 1891 in Hamburg ein neues Kapitel des Reisens: die Kreuzfahrt.

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

Translated from the Catalan.

Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates.

Attention all Shipping Forecast fans.

Flotilla 13 is the elite naval commando unit of the Israeli Defense Forces that specializes in maritime hostage rescue and counter-terrorist missions.

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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present.

This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.

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Monaco – ein kleines Fürstentum, das heute für Luxus und Glamour steht, birgt eine Geschichte, die weit über die schillernden Fassaden hinausgeht.

El presente libro es fruto de una investigación iniciada hace varias décadas, en las que se han consultado archivos y bibliotecas en España, Perú, Chile, México, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Australia.

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This volume sheds new light on one of the most remarkable polymaths of the English Renaissance.

Translated and edited from the German account by Gabriel Tetzel, with supplementary passages from the Latin versions (printed in 1577, 1843 and 1951) of the lost account in Czech by VA!

Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years.

Look inside an 18th-century warship as it sails into battle on the high seas.

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Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates.

From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627.

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

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.

China's maritime "e;gray zone"e; operations represent a new challenge for the U.

Learning War examines the U.

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.

In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy.

Continues from First Series 67, with the years 1618-1622, .

For the first time in naval warfare submarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939–45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessel that were deployed by the eighteen combatant nations during those years.

The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial AmericaWas classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism?

A view of pirate life-from the crow's nest .

In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end.

In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China s navy, one that continues to grow while the U.

Beginning with the Black Death in 1348 and extending through to the demise of Habsburg rule in 1700, this second edition of Spanish Society, 1348-1700 has been expanded to provide a wide and compelling exploration of Spain's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.

Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.

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