Maritime history

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

In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine.

The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume.

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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

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.

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.

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates.

In the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem many pilgrims came to Jerusalem.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

A detailed look at the American Revolutionary War as an Atlantic-wide conflict.

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.

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This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion.

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

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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.

Before contact with white people, the Northwest Coast natives had traded amongst themselves and with other indigenous people farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when Russian coasters had penetrated the Gulf of Alaska and British merchantmen were frequenting Nootka Sound, trade had become the dominant economic activity in the area.

One of Library Journals 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park.

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WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.

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

The Russian conquest of Siberia was an event of which the consequences have only slowly become apparent.

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'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.

The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields.

I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "e;raiders and rebels"e; who terrorized the seas.

With thousands of islands adrift in cerulean waters and a long, labyrinthine coastline, Greeks have always traveled liquid highways.

The paddle steamer holds a unique place in the history of maritime engineering.

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Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside.

This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies.

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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.

First published in 1901, "e;The Mayflower and Her Log"e; looks in detail into the historic voyage of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.

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The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive.

In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay joined the Royal Navy and spent the next eight years at sea.

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

The Roman Empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed.

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire.