Maritime history

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Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating!

Edward 'Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot.

Edward 'Ned' Low's career in piracy began with a single gunshot.

The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.

The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.

Titanic.

Titanic.

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY – and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.

The Truth About the Mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY – and the Fate of Fletcher Christian brings this famed South Pacific saga into the 21st century.

From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace.

From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace.

The sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history.

Charts the British government's changing perception of the utility of naval control of trade between 1854 and the late 1960sThis collection of departmental files and treaties reviews the changing perceptions in the British government of the utility of naval control of trade over the period from the outbreak of the Russian or 'Crimean' war in 1854 to the United Nations mandated Beira patrol, established in 1966 to stop the flow of oil to Southern Rhodesia.

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.

The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents – Africa, Europe, North America and South America – through the lens of Atlantic history.

The ocean is one of the few untamed places on earthunpredictable and unsympathetic to the lives lost there.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE TALES OF THE SEA"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is a memoir of a year spent on a U.

""The art of command is…to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy''s impressment of American ships and mariners.

An investigation of the Atlantic origins of the American Revolution, focusing on the British navy''s impressment of American ships and mariners.

An empirical analysis of the global ocean''s most contested maritime territory, the South China Sea and its agents of contest.

An empirical analysis of the global ocean''s most contested maritime territory, the South China Sea and its agents of contest.

The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.

Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire.

The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.

Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire.

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

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

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

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

This book examines China''s conduct in its maritime disputes in order to analyse Beijing''s foreign policy intentions in general.

This book examines China''s conduct in its maritime disputes in order to analyse Beijing''s foreign policy intentions in general.

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.

New naval history of the First World War which reveals the contribution of the war at sea to Allied victory.

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

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

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

A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.

A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.

Man lives on land, but the seas of the world are crucial to his lot.

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to care at hospitals run by the navy.

In ›Die Erfindung der Freibeuter‹ tauchen Leserinnen und Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Grenzen zwischen Legende und Realität verschwimmen.