Maritime history

Thousands of cargo ships sailed in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II manned by young men who braved blockades, torpedoes, and bombings to deliver vital supplies to the Allied forces and make victory possible.

Friar Domingo Navarrete, A Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69) in China, where he became a determined opponent of the evangelical methods of the 'Jesuit mandarins'.

Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens.

'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'.

This book is concerned with both the national security concerns of Asian maritime nations and the security of the Asian maritime commons.

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

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Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon.

Texts dealing with Portuguese and Castilian enterprise, translated into English and edited.

In addition to the main text, this also has Edward Sellman's account of the third voyage, and a list of artefacts from Frobisher encampments, etc, found by C.

Nach der dramatischen Eroberung Konstantinopels im Jahr 1204 durch die Kreuzfahrer des vierten Kreuzzugs lag das einst mächtige Byzantinische Reich in Trümmern.

A Scientific, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour: John Lee In England, Wales and Ireland, 1806-7, is a critical edition of the travel diaries and sketchbooks of Dr John Lee FRS (ne Fiott, 1783-1866), published for the first time.

A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny journey.

This title features up-to-date historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in the last half of the Bronze Age.

In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical.

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An updated and expanded edition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this iconic ship.

In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida.

Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes.

A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America.

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In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields.

This book fills an important gap in the literature on the history of the modern Royal Navy.

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This work contains accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris and Foxe.

A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy.

In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great Britain.

The Titanic.

France, early summer 1794.

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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.

Feared throughout the Far East, Japanese pirates were likened to 'black demons' and 'flood dragons'.

Learning War examines the U.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships.

Published in 1900, this book was written for anyone interested in going to sea or simply curious about the work of sailors.

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

Translation and edition.

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts.

Regular commercial contacts between Europe and Asia date back to at least the early years of the Christian era, but the pattern of trade underwent a structural modification following the Portuguese discovery of a route to the East Indies via the Cape of Good Hope.

Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort.

Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru.

The troubled chain of events involving Captain Kidd's capture of the Quedagh Merchant and his eventual execution for piracy in 1701 are well known, but the exact location of the much sought-after ship remained a mystery for more than 300 years.

Being an island nation, the ocean is never too far from Sri Lanka.

During the Pacific War the most successful component of the Imperial Japanese Fleet was its destroyer force.

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today.