Maritime history

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

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building's Plateresque facade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day.

Diese Geschichte des Artillerieoffiziers Karl Wettstein erzählt von den Kämpfen der k.

The abolishment of flogging in 1850 started the U.

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The General Board of the Navy, in existence from 1900 to 1950, was a uniquely American and unparalleled strategic planning organization.

When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L.

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

This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919.

From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal hunter, climbed aboard a distressed Spanish ship carrying scores of West Africans he thought were slaves.

Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / HistoryThe plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurdur Einarsdttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863.

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Our Blue Planet provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of maritime and underwater archaeology.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022_______________'Rigorous, deft and entertaining .

For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape.

The Midway-class were the US Navy's biggest carriers built during World War II.

Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N.

A maritime archeologist recounts twenty years of remarkable discoveries and adventures both in and under the waters of South Carolina.

For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.

The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines.

From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnificent liners as well as the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life onboard.

This edition brings together in three fully edited volumes the correspondence and associated papers of Sir Joseph Banks regarding European and especially British exploration of Africa from 1767-1820, for the first time publishing this globally scattered material in one place, thereby revolutionizing its availability and understanding of the activities of a key figure who helped organize and publish a series of missions to penetrate the African interior, mainly from West Africa and by crossing the Sahara from Cairo and Tripoli.

Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods.

Translated from the Evora MS.

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A vivid and revealing portrait of shipboard life as experienced by eighteenth-century migrants from Europe to the New World In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia.

David Hannay endeavours to give a popular, but clear and not inaccurate, account of the growth, and services, of the Royal Navy.

After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships.

In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end.

Employing rigorous analysis and lively narrative alongside specially commissioned artwork, this study casts new light on the rivalry between two vessels of war in the Mediterranean.

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration.

A swashbuckling narrative of treachery and obsession involving pirates, fur seals, competing governments, and near war.

Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world.

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance.

Beginning with the Black Death in 1348 and extending through to the demise of Habsburg rule in 1700, this second edition of Spanish Society, 1348-1700 has been expanded to provide a wide and compelling exploration of Spain's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.

The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile.

Containing part of the text of North-west Fox, London, 1635.

An epic shipwreck tale.

A review of underwater archaeology offering a clear exposition of new developments in undersea technologies.

Captain James Cook was the greatest explorer of his age, perhaps of any age.

The development of linear perspective in the 15th century represented a radical transformation in the European's sense of the world, the body and the self.

Translated from the Portuguese, with Notes and an Introduction.

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City.

The North-West Passage had thwarted the attempts of many expeditions by the mid nineteenth century, but none were so famous as the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew.

O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day.

For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.

Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way.