Maritime history

On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable.

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

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia.

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

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

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

This study of shipping makes visible a sector that has led European economic growth for centuries, yet rarely appears in business or economic histories.

This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia.

This revealing portrait of the oceanic Dutch Empire exposes the maritime world as a catalyst for the downfall of European imperialism.

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

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

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

Examines the slogan ''free trade and sailors rights'', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans'' experience with impressment into the British navy.

Examines the slogan ''free trade and sailors rights'', tracing its sources to eighteenth-century thought and Americans'' experience with impressment into the British navy.

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

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

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

A 1960s German perspective of the World War II battle in Libya and how the Allied and Axis commanders shaped the course of the action.

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

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

This is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David SyrettThis is the first of two volumes of Admiral Lord Rodney's correspondence edited by Professor David Syrett, Distinguished Professor of History at Queen's College, City University of New York, and published after his untimely death in 2004.

This is Volume 1 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.

The 2003 edition of The Naval Miscellany illuminates almost every aspect of naval life.

Includes regular reports of the admirals in command of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet.

A mediados del siglo XVI, Europa sufrió la mayor amenaza de su historia: el avance del imperio turco islámico.

This world famous book tells biographies of the greatest pirates who ruled the seas in 18th century.

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.

Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807.

British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless aristocrat and the apostle of big-stick diplomacy.

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.

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

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

The years leading to World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'.

For many years the naval warfare of World War I has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to the conflict to be largely naval.

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

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World.