Maritime history

From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States.

This WWII naval history chronicles the prolific combat career of one of the most important US ships to fight in the Pacific War.

This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northwards to Stonehaven.

Die deutsche Kühlschiffsflotte war nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg lange Jahre eine der führenden der Welt.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

An action-packed story of adventure and survival in one of the planets most treacherous places.

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics.

Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era.

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised"e;Will surely become the definitive account.

How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the West?

The diary is transcribed, with introductory notes, etc.

The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland is an authentic account of one of the most horrible disasters in Canadian history.

A study of the British Royal Navy’s activities in the Indian Ocean during World War II, led by Admiral Sir James Somerville.

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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.

The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans.

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"… ICH STERBE MIT EINEM FLUCH AUF DEN DEUTSCHEN MILITÄRSTAAT.

The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the last year of the War of 1812.

North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the most dramatic episodes of piracy and sea warfare in the nation's history.

Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698.

Translated from the Original Arabic and Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and an Introduction, continuing the History down to 1870.

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Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent.

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

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

When Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949, it was hoped it would promote greater unity between the Maritime provinces, as Term 29 of the Newfoundland Act explicitly linked the region's economic and political fortunes.

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On his second expedition to the Pacific, in the years 1772-5, Captain James Cook made a voyage which, in the annals of exploration, is unsurpassed for grandeur of design and execution and for variety of experience.

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

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For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see.

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West.

The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history.

This book gives an accurate picture of the pirates who sailed in the waters of the Caribbean and off the American coastline during the 'golden age' of piracy between 1660 and 1730.

This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative.

From the Thirteenth century through the Nineteenth, the waterways of the world provided the major means of transportation for exploration, trade, the military, and even criminals.

A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat-it helped to make an empire.

It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel-in a word, ordinary.

An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.

Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form.

Eighteen lighthouses still stand in the Carolinas, from Currituck Lighthouse near the Virginia border down to Haig Point Lighthouse near the border with Georgia.

The history of US imperialism remains incomplete without this consideration of long-overlooked nineteenth-century American commercial and whaling ventures in the Indian Ocean.

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

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

This study examines how intellectual and institutional developments transformed the U.

The America's Cup has always been a hotbed of unbridled ambition, personal agendas, intrigue, spying and, more recently, hardfought court cases and that's before the boats even get out on the water to race.