Maritime history

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The nineteenth-century Royal Navy was transformed from a fleet of sailing wooden walls into a steam powered machine.

Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft?

For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions.

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Fighting Ships of the Far East (1) adds enormously to the hitherto small corpus of knowledge about a fascinating and little known subject.

As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere.

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

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them.

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

Showcasing established and new patterns of research, The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing takes an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and to travel texts themselves.

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For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions.

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.

In 2001, while vacationing on Panama's Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P.

Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.

Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941.

The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.

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.

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

Mit sechs Wissenschaftlern an Bord startet die Zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt auf zwei Schiffen nach Grönland und zum Arktischen Ozean.

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked.

An in-depth examination of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes and their implications for the rules of the international law of the sea China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes.

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A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

Positioned at the crossroads of the maritime routes linking the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Yemeni port of Aden grew to be one of the medieval world's greatest commercial hubs.

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders.

Translation and edition.

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An intriguing history and one not to be missed.

Ludwig Leichhardt is chiefly known as the most important of the scientific explorers of Australia.

The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812.

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

Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, continuing the narrative from First Series 33.

Die berühmte Expedition des Polarforschers John Franklin, die 1845 auf der Suche nach der Nordwestpassage aufbrach, endete in einer rätselhaften Katastrophe: Keiner kam zurück.

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.

A detailed re-examination of Midway, one of the most significant battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Explores the fundamental role of the British state in facilitating the nation''s global expansion and ascendancy in the eighteenth century.

This collection of papers by an international chort of contributors explores the nature of the maritime connections that appear to have existed in the Transmanche/English Channel Zone during later prehistory.

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific.

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.

Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.

Maritime piracy's improbable re-emergence following the end of the Cold War was surprising as the image of pirates evokes masted galleons and cutlasses.

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.

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A World War II adventure story of epic proportions, this book tells the heroic tale of a dedicated band of men who refused to let their crippled ship sink to the bottom of the Pacific in late 1944.