Maritime history

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Did British, French and Russian gunboats pacify the notoriously corsair-infested waters of the Eastern Mediterranean?

Tudor and Stuart Seafarers tells the compelling story of how a small island positioned on the edge of Europe transformed itself into the world's leading maritime power.

Translated, for the First Time, with Notes, a Preface, and an Introductory Life of Timour Beg.

In 1718 the British crown in the Bahamas pardoned 209 mariners accused of piracy.

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway with changing fortunes until the very end.

More a book about Coast Guard heritage than an academic history, this book focuses on a variety of relatively unknown Guardsmen who personify the service's core values.

A highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II.

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication.

Analyzes how negotiations between Dutch consuls and North African rulers over the liberation of Dutch sailors helped create a new diplomatic order in the western Mediterranean.

"e;A solid introduction and useful survey of slaving activity by the Muslims of North Africa over the course of several centuries.

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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.

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.

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

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.

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

In this remarkable book, now reissued in paperback, Brian Lavery examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation that was put under acute strain during the period, yet rose to the challenge with initiative and determination.

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

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Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune.

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'Excellent' Financial Times'Stirring, impressively detailed' Time magazineThe Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair.

John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters.

In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels.

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by the Ottoman Navy.

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

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Garrett Mattingly's thrilling narrative sets out the background of the sixteenth-century European intrigue and religious unrest that gave rise to one of the world's most famous maritime crusades and the naval battles that decided its fate.

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Written 1580-90, first published at Seville in 1594, translated with notes and an introduction.

Translation and edition.

Tom Cunliffe is one of the biggest names in the sailing world an internationally renowned journalist and speaker, and the go-to guru when the BBC wants a presenter for a new TV series about maritime interests.

Bestselling author James Nelson brings us another maritime adventure packed with battle, duty, heroism and tragedy.

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

In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars.

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The definitive New York Times-bestselling account: "e;One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since A Night to Remember"e; (The Detroit News).

Sextants at Greenwich consists of two main sections: The introductory chapters and the catalogue of navigating instruments of the National Maritime Museum.

Written by two World War II veterans who later became well-known war correspondents, this biography records the inspiring life of one of America's great naval heroes.

Exploring the role that courts martial played in the professional lives of flag officers in the late Georgian Royal Navy, this book examines the genesis, proceedings and outcomes of nine trials faced by British admirals in the American and French wars.

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.

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.

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

The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory   During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain’s warships.