Maritime history Books

Book SynopsisWhat did it takelogistically and operationallyfor the small and underfunded US Navy to face the battle-hardened Royal Navy in the War of 1812? Find out in this book, the magnum opus of one of the deans of American naval history. When the War of 1812 broke out, the newly formed and cash-strapped United States faced Great Britain, the world's foremost sea power, with a navy that had largely fallen into disrepair and neglect. In this riveting book, William S. Dudley presents the most complete history of the inner workings of the US Navy Department during the conflict, which lasted until 1815. What did it take, he asks, for the US Navy to build, fit-out, man, provision, and send fighting ships to sea for extended periods of time during the War of 1812?When the British blockade of 181314 severely constrained American sea trade, reducing the government's income and closing down access to American seaports, the navy was forced to innovate: to make improvements through reforms, to redeploy pTrade ReviewInside the US Navy of 1812-1815 serves a vital function, illuminating an aspect of the war that is often glossed over in other studies. Dudley makes a compelling and engaging argument for the importance of administration and logistics, which, in turn, makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the second war between the United States and Great Britain.—Cindy Vallar, Pirates and Privateers: The History of Martime PiracyInside the US Navy of 1812–1815 is an excellent resource. In addition, this book is essential reading for understanding this chapter in the U.S. Navy's evolution from the Continental Navy of the 18th century to the global power of the 21st century.— William J. Prom, U.S Naval InstituteWilliam S. Dudley has focused his career on the early history of the American Navy. His latest book, Inside the US Navy 1812-1815, is the product of ten years of effort, resulting in an essential volume.—Laurence Kerr, Sea HistoryIn this critical new assessment, William Dudley, Director of the US Naval Historical Centre between 1995 and 2004 and founding editor of the essential The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, addresses the maritime dimension of a conflict that has long been at the centre of American naval identity, as visitors to the Naval Academy at Annapolis will have observed.—Andrew Lambert, King's College London, Northern Mariner/Le marin du nordInside the U.S. Navy will stand for many years as the authoritative source on the war at sea and on inland rivers and lakes. Military, maritime, and naval historians as well as historians of technology and the Early Republic will find this an indispensable reference work.—Jason W. Smith, Southern Connecticut University, Nautical Research JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and TablesPreface AcknowledgmentsChapter One. The Resources for Naval WarChapter Two. Paul Hamilton's Ordeal: The Onset of War, 1809–1812Chapter Three. William Jones's Challenge: A Two-Front Naval WarChapter Four. From Lake Erie to Lake HuronChapter Five. Sailors, Privateers, and MunitionsChapter Six. The British Blockade of 1813–1814Chapter Seven. Managing the Navy DepartmentChapter Eight. Naval Innovation and InventionsChapter Nine. Chauncey's War on Lake OntarioChapter Ten. Macdonough's War on Lake ChamplainChapter Eleven. In Defense of the Chesapeake BayChapter Twelve. Hostilities in the Seaboard SouthChapter Thirteen. Sailors' Life and WorkChapter Fourteen. War Finance and the BlockadeChapter Fifteen. Renewal of the US NavyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949, it was hoped it would promote greater unity between the Maritime provinces, as Term 29 of the Newfoundland Act explicitly linked the region's economic and political fortunes. On the surface, the union seemed like an unprecedented opportunity to resurrect the regional spirit of the Maritime Rights movement of the 1920s, which advocated a cooperative approach to addressing regional underdevelopment. However, Newfoundland's arrival did little at first to bring about a comprehensive Atlantic Canadian regionalism.Inventing Atlantic Canada is the first book to analyse the reaction of the Maritime provinces to Newfoundland's entry into Confederation. Drawing on editorials,government documents, and political papers, Corey Slumkoski examines how each Maritime province used the addition of a new provincial cousin to fight underdevelopment. Slumkoski also details the rise of regional cooperation characterized byTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Newfoundland-Maritime Connections from Colonization to Confederation 2. A Province Divided: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland's Entry into Confederation 3. "... both islands would benefit": Prince Edward Island and 4. Newfoundland's Entry into Confederation 5. "... for the general expansion of the economy ...": New Brunswick and 6. Newfoundland's Entry into Confederation 7. "...preaching a dangerous gospel": Regional Union and Newfoundland in the 1940s Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel - in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an age of rising empires, economic transformation, and social change.

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Book SynopsisIn The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great Britain. The American Revolution left the United States with the liberty to take fish from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world dominated by Great Britain. The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship between the fisheries and the state through the Civil W

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Book SynopsisA documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore’s great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975. The investigation into the wreck, resulting in a controversial final report, generated more than 3,000 pages of documentation, a mere fraction of which has been made available to the public. In The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Michael Schumacher mines this rich resource to produce the first-ever documentary account, a companion to his popular narrative Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. In the words of search and rescue personnel, ship designers and inspectors, scientists and naval engineers, former crewmen of the Fitz and the Arthur M. Anderson (the nearby ore carrier that captured the damaged vessel’s last communications), The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald recreates the doomed ore boat’s final minutes, the suspense of the search and rescue operations, and the drama of the subsequent Coast Guard inquiry. From the Anderson’s captain and first mate we hear reports of the Fitzgerald taking on water in the fierce storm near Michipicoten and Caribou Islands, losing its radar, and stating, finally, famously, “We are holding our own.” We follow the investigation, the speculation, and expert testimony to a problematic conclusion—countered by an alternate theory that the Anderson’s captain maintained to his dying day.By declaring the Edmund Fitzgerald an official gravesite, Canada closed the wreck to further exploration. But here the exploration continues, providing a unique, and uniquely enlightening, perspective on this unforgettable episode in America’s maritime history.Trade Review"This was a very eye-opening read. Among the many hundreds of Great Lakes maritime books, I am not aware of any writers using the words of witnesses and participants in such a significant way. Michael Schumacher did an amazing job culling through all the testimony and then organizing and presenting the words of others in an understandable fashion with enough of his own interjection to link the testimony together. And it is ingenious how he encourages and then provides the readers with just the right amount of key testimony to be able to serve as juror and make their own determination of what caused this massive ship to sink. Well done!"—Valerie van Heest, maritime historian and author"Thanks to The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald, readers are privy to the thoughts of crew members of other ships, not to mention ship designers, inspectors, naval engineers and search & rescue personnel, all of whom provided their perspective to investigators in the wake of the accident."—Failure Magazine"If you think you have read everything there is that’s worth reading on the Fitzgerald, think again. Once you start reading, it will be hard to put down."—Detroit Marine Historian"Schumacher has arranged the testimony so that it reads like a well organized and engrossing narrative and culminates with the report of the two boards and a Lake Carriers' Association Letter of Dissent."—Michigan in Books"A definitive account of a tragic story that has made its way into Canadian folklore."—Literary Review of Canada

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Book SynopsisShipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighters, early steel-hulled steamers, whalebacks, and bulk carriers—some well-known, some unknown or forgotten—all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior.Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy, such as that of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, the sailors’ bodies never recovered nor the wreckage ever found; an account of the whaleback Wilson, rammed by a large commercial freighter in broad daylight and in calm seas, sinking before many on board could escape; and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a package freighter that went down in a storm and whose sailors were found on the Isle Royale the following spring, having escaped the wreck only to die of exposure on the island. Then there is the ill-fated Steinbrenner, plagued by bad luck from the time of her construction, when she was nearly destroyed by fire, to her eventual (and tragic) sinking in 1953. These tales and more represent loss of life and property—and are haunting stories of brave and heroic crews.Arranged chronologically and presented in three sections covering Minnesota's North Shore, Isle Royale, and the three biggest storms in Minnesota’s Great Lakes history (the 1905 Mataafa storm, the 1913 hurricane on the lakes, and the 1940 Armistice Day storm), each shipwreck documented within these pages provides a piece to the history of shipping on Lake Superior.

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Book SynopsisA classic of maritime history updated with new information, John P. Holland, 1841–1914 is the sole full-length biography of the man whose technological innovations led to the launching of the first modern submarine in May 1897. While David Bushnell may be considered the father of the submarine, Holland devised the technical improvements that enabled a craft to operate equally effectively whether submerged or surfaced, and it was his design that the U.S. Navy purchased in 1900. Richard Knowles Morris draws on diaries and papers left by his grandfather, a longtime friend of Holland and an superintending engineer of the Holland Torpedo Boat Company (later Electric Boat), to trace the inventor's eventful life. Morris recounts Holland's early years, his frustration in dealing with the Fenians and the U.S. Navy, and his company's negotiations with Japan, Great Britain, and Russia for Holland boats. Of particular interest is the selection of photographs that offer an enlightening pictorial of early submarine history.Trade ReviewThe classic story of the self-trained inventor-engineer who revolutionized naval architecture." —Journal of American History"This is a sound work in a highly controversial field, and can be read by naval buffs or history students with equal profit and pleasure." —Choice"A solid, scholarly step toward [Holland's] belated recognition." —New York Times Book Review"Certain to be the standard biography of Holland." —The Irish Sword"By far the best of its kind." —Submarines"[The book's] virtues are many: felicitous coverage of Holland's childhood, youth, and career in Ireland; fascinating material on the activities of the Fenian Society; the agonies of obtaining a government contract; and the history of the Electric Boat Company …This is the definitive work on Holland and is considerably more than naval and submarine history." —Library Journal

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Book SynopsisOn a frigid, stormy day in February of 1686, a small French sailing ship lost control and ran aground in Matagorda Bay. Pounded in the Texas bay by gale-force winds and storm surges, La Belle slipped beneath the water and sank to the bottom, where she would remain for centuries. More than 300 years later, Texas Historical Commission archeologists discovered La Belle's resting place. Using cutting-edge technology and scientific innovation, investigators excavated the shipwreck and salvaged from its watery grave more than a million artifacts, including bronze guns, muskets, trade beads, axes, rings, bells, dishes, medicines - everything a New World colony needed for survival. Authors James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner use vivid photographs and engaging descriptions to share the excitement of discovery as they piece together both the ship and its tragic story. For those interested in history, archeology, or the quest for clues to the past, ""From a Watery Grave"" tells a riveting tale of nautical adventure in the seventeenth century and reveals modern scientific archeology at its best.

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Book SynopsisMediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France's King Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom's coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions-ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints-Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. ;; With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)-rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands-in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV's reign.Trade Review"A dazzling collection of early modern artworks and a major interdisciplinary achievement between social history and art history that uncovers, for the first time, how and why the French Sun King Louis XIV shaped his propaganda on the enslavement of Mediterranean Muslims. A masterpiece!"-M'hamed Oualdi, Sciences Po, Paris;; "Superbly illustrated, The Sun King at Sea is a tour de force of the historical imagination that deploys the resources of social and cultural history and of material and visual culture to reveal and portray the enslavement of Muslims for Louis XIV's Mediterranean galley fleet. Martin and Weiss's approach to a disturbing subject too long hidden in plain sight is unflinchingly illuminating yet humane."-Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London;; "This is not only an original and archivally rich study but also an unsettling and necessary one. The authors combine rigorous historical research with fresh and insightful visual analysis to chronicle the violence, coercion, and suppression that underpinned the fabric of Louis XIV's navy and the diplomatic, material, and symbolic structures of his reign. Martin and Weiss's book is a must-read for all students and scholars of the Sun King's court as well as those interested in slavery, maritime power, and society in early modern Europe."--Mark Ledbury, Director of the Power Institute, The University of Sydney; “An indispensable and original book that centers the Mediterranean Sea in the visual and ornamental imaginary of the so-called Grand Siècle; interprets maritime vessels as pluralistic micro-societies and vehicles of royal propaganda, and locates the roots of Orientalism in an early-modern Turquerie complicated by the longstanding presence of slavery and Islam in France. A must-read!” —Anne Lafont, directrice d'études à l'EHESS

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Book SynopsisRichard Gebhart traces little-known voyages of Great Lakes ships that sailed the Atlantic beginning in the 1850s. They bore cargoes to and from the lakes and as far as Constantinople. Gebhart recovers the voices of long-ago ship captains, along with their cargo manifests and itineraries. Drawing on deep research in old newspapers and maritime archives, he traces the construction of new ships and shipyards, and the comings and goings and travails of the lakes’ workhorses. Included is a mournful visit to a boneyard where many ships’ lives ended. Among many other lost tales, Gebhart brings to light the rise of oil tankers, marking the great twentieth-century energy transition in shipping. A must-read for Great Lakes shipping fans.

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Book SynopsisFacing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces.Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices.The group’s main government-financed activity, which eventually led to other destructive inventions such as the Hunley submarine and behind-enemy-line railroad sabotage, was the manufacture and deployment of an underwater contact mine. During the two years the Singer group operated, several Union gunboats, troop transports, supply trains, and even the famous ironclad monitor Tecumseh fell prey to its inventions.In Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War, submarine expert and nautical historian Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Poring through previously unpublished archival documents, Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy’s use of torpedoes and submarines.

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.Trade ReviewCrane’s book makes a very clear case for why writing about Barbary piracy matters to the development of American ideas and ideas of race, freedom, and citizenship. He recovers several different early American works that can be used as the basis for further scholarship while also adding to the extant scholarship on the transatlantic and transnational origins of US literature." - Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, author of Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature"Blood and Ink draws attention to a significant but critically neglected area of focus in early US print culture concerning Barbary discourse. It will have a major impact within early American studies of print culture and its relationship to race, nation, and global perceptions in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries." - Keri Holt, author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Appealing to the Nation Part One: Of Pirates and Print Chapter One The Patriot and the Sable Bard Chapter Two Barbary(an) Invasions Part Two: The Barbary and the Jewish Atlantic Chapter Three “A Vague Resemblance to Something Seen Elsewhere” Chapter Four Performing Diaspora in Noah’s Travels Part Three: The Long Shadow of the Barbary Chapter Five “The Advantage of a Whip-Lecture” Chapter Six Peter Parley in Tripoli Coda: Selim’s Archive Fever Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.Trade ReviewCrane’s book makes a very clear case for why writing about Barbary piracy matters to the development of American ideas and ideas of race, freedom, and citizenship. He recovers several different early American works that can be used as the basis for further scholarship while also adding to the extant scholarship on the transatlantic and transnational origins of US literature." - Sharada Balachandran Orihuela, author of Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature"Blood and Ink draws attention to a significant but critically neglected area of focus in early US print culture concerning Barbary discourse. It will have a major impact within early American studies of print culture and its relationship to race, nation, and global perceptions in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries." - Keri Holt, author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776–1830

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Book SynopsisThe Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History presents the first such narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich. Many famous figures who sailed the Gulf's viridian waters are highlighted, including Ponce de León, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, Francis Drake, Jean Laffite, Tyrone Power, Richard Henry Dana, Libbie Custer, Elizabeth Agassiz, Ernest Hemingway, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as Charles Dwight Sigsbee, at the helm of the doomed Maine. But Sledge also introduces a fascinating and diverse array of people connected to maritime life in the Gulf, including Mesoamerican pyramid builders, Spanish conquistadores, French pirates, Creole women, Cajun fishermen, African American stevedores, British jack-tars, and Greek sponge divers.Gulf events of global historical importance are detailed, such as the only defeat of armed and armored steamships by wooden sailing vessels, the first accurate deep-sea survey and bathymetric map of any ocean basin, the development of shipping containers by a former truck driver frustrated with antiquated loading practices, and the worst environmental disaster in American annals.Occasionally shifting focus ashore, Sledge explains how people representing a gumbo of ethnicities built some of the world's most exotic cities--Havana, way station for conquistadores and treasure-filled galleons; New Orleans, the Big Easy, famous for its beautiful French Quarter, Mardi Gras, and relaxed morals; and oft-besieged Veracruz, Mexico's oldest city, founded in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. Throughout history the residents of these cities and their neighbors along the littoral have struggled with challenges both natural and human-induced--devastating hurricanes, frightening epidemics, catastrophic oil spills, and conflicts ranging from dockside brawls to pirate raids, foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution. In the modern era the Gulf has become critical to energy Production, fisheries, tourism, and international trade, even as it is threatened by pollution and climate change. The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History is a work of verve and sweep that illuminates both the risks of life on the water and the riches that come from its bounty.

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Book SynopsisTraces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic worldPort Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long trans-Altlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a sea-facing history of the South, one that connects that terrestrial region to this expansive maritime history. By bringing the study up to the 20th century in the collection's final section, the editors, Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott, make the case for the lasting influence of these port cities—and Atlantic world history—on the economy, society, and culture of the contemporary South.

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been." -- Hester Blum * Pennsylvania State University and President of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists *"New Books Network - New Books in History" podcast interview with Lenora Warren https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenora-warren-fire-on-the-water-sailors-slaves-and-insurrection-in-early-american-literature-1789-1886-rutgers-up-2019/ * New Books Network *"Recommended." * Choice *"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms." * ALH Online Review *"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians." * H-Net *"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences." * Early American Literature *Table of Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2 Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility 3 Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing 4 The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSeafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.Trade Review"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de paciencia *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *"This is a timely collection of essays that provides students and scholars of early modernity with new perspectives and insights on the importance of shipwrecks as a major cultural and political event. For all the authors in the volume, a shipwreck is the unavoidable partner of empire and colonial expansion, signaling the perilous path of conquest and at the same time revealing the fissures of the entire imperial enterprise. Going beyond rhetoric, the volume argues for a more comprehensive approach to shipwrecks, defined as significant cultural events that expose not only the precarious nature of imperial expansion and colonial rule, but also issues related to gender, sexuality, identity, and morality." -- Luis Avilés * author of Avatares de lo invisible: Espacio y subjetividad en los Siglos de Oro *"Rodríguez-Guridi and Ruiz's Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is an excellent example of the rich interdisciplinary orientation that prevails in the field of Early Modern Hispanic Studies, providing fertile ground for in-depth analyses on resistance to Spanish conquest and colonization." -- Raúl Marrero-Fente * author of Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de pacienc *"Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World is perhaps the only English-language collection of essays structured around this central theme or metaphor in recent times. Now that a number of literary critics, cultural studies scholars, and historians are working on maritime matters in the Spanish-speaking world, the chapters of this book offer a distinctive way of looking at topics relevant to these scholars and to early modernists, generally." -- Elizabeth Davis * author of Myth and Identity in the Epic of Imperial Spain *Table of ContentsForeword Josiah Blackmore Introduction Elena Rodríguez-Guridi and Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 1: Turbulent Waters: Shipwreck in Zayas’s “Tarde llega el desengaño” Carrie L. Ruiz Chapter 2: Two Small and Two Large Imperial Shipwrecks by Cervantes and Góngora Julio Baena Chapter 3: The Reader as Castaway: Problematics of Reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora Elena Rodríguez-Guridi Chapter 4: On Moral Truth and the Controversy over the Amerindians: The Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Natalio Ohanna Chapter 5: The Discourse of Poverty in Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla Chapter 6: Shipwreck, Exile, and Political Critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto en China (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez Carmen Hsu Chapter 7: The Manila Galleon Shipwrecks: Writing Crisis and Decline in the Spanish Global Empire Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Chapter 8: The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan Noemí Martín Santo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis'There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea,' wrote Joseph Conrad. There is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. In The Sea: A Cultural History, John Mack considers those great expanses that both unite and divide us, and the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea, from navigation to colonization to trade. Much of the world's population lives on or near the coast, and people inhabit and engage with the sea in a variety of ways. The Sea explores the diversity of seas themselves, maritime technologies (especially the practice of navigation), and different cultures surrounding the sea. Seafarers have characteristic social and technical practices, as well as having distinctive language and customs. Many cultures have created a society of the sea, which is usually all-male, often cosmopolitan and always hierarchical. The separation of sea and land is evident in the use of different vocabularies on land and on sea for the same things, the change in a mariner's behavior when on land and in the liminal status of points uniting the two realms, like beaches and ports.Ships are also deployed in symbolic contexts on land, from ship burials to ecclesiastical and public architecture. The two realms - land and sea - are never completely separate. Casting a wide net, The Sea uses histories, maritime archaeology, anthropology, art history, biography and literature to provide an innovative and experiential account of the waters that surround us.Trade Review"'I am a part of the sea and the sea is part of me, ' muses a Torres Straits elder, and John Mack brings readers to just such recognition of their own places in the world. In his able hands, seas become places and not merely The Great Between. They have their own histories, and demand sophisticated technologies of exploration, exploitation, and intellectual fathoming. Through many years of museum scholarship, Mack has perfected a grand, sweeping vision matched by delight in deepest detail, and here he tells compelling stories about 'ships as societies, ' 'sea gypsies, ' and the hundred named 'seamarks' in open water known to residents of Mabuiag Island. Welcome aboard!"- Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles --Allen F. Roberts

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Book SynopsisOverturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of seamen in the navy were there of their own free will. Taking a long view across the late eighteenth century but concentrating on the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the book provides great detailon the sort of men that were recruited and the means by which they were recruited, and includes a number of individuals' stories. It shows how manpower was a major concern for the Admiralty; how the Admiralty put in place a rangeof recruitment methods including the quota system; how it worried about depleting merchant shipping of sufficient sailors; and how, although most seamen were volunteers, the press gang was resorted to, especially during the initial mobilisation at the beginning of wars and to find certain kinds of particularly skilled seamen. The book also makes comparisons with recruitment methods employed by the navies of other countries and by the British army. J. ROSS DANCY is Director of Graduate Studies in History and Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State UniversityTrade Review[An] excellent study. . . . In this book Dancy has shown how historians can exploit digital humanities. By doing so he has implemented a sea-change in the way we view how the Royal Navy manned its ships . . . He has well and truly debunked 'The Myth of the Press Gang'. * WAR IN HISTORY *An important book. * THE NELSON DISPATCH *J. Ross Dancy is to be congratulated for shedding light on a core issue in the history of the Royal Navy. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Table of ContentsIntroduction British Naval Administration Manning Statistics Volunteers Impressment The Quota Acts Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisShows how Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in different colonial centres with varied colonial arrangements that the surge in piracy in this period was contained and reduced. This book charts the surge and decline in piracy in the early eighteenth century (the so-called "Golden Age" of piracy), exploring the ways in which pirates encountered, obstructed, and antagonised the diverse participants of the British empire in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. The book's primary focus is on how anti-piracy campaigns were constructed as a result of the negotiations, conflicts, and individual undertakings of different imperial actors operating in the commercial and imperial hub of London; maritime communities throughout the British Atlantic; trading outposts in West Africa and India; and marginal and contested zones such as the Bahamas, Madagascar, and the Bay Islands. It argues that Britain and its empire was not a strong centralised imperial state; that the British imperial administration and the Royal Navy did not have the resources to mount a state-led, empire-wide war against piracy following the sharp increase in piratical attacks after 1716; and that it was only through manifold activities taking place in different colonial centres with varied colonial arrangements, economic strengths, and access to resources for maritime defence - which was often shaped by competing and contradictory interests - that Atlantic piracy was gradually discouraged, although not eradicated, by the mid-1720s.Trade ReviewOne of the most compelling aspects of this work is its incredible detail and depth of research. The author has clearly produced one of the most thorough studies of colonial political, economic, and legal issues possible.... The scale of research certainly is impressive.... I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject of British colonial history, the history of colonial America, or the history of piracy. Student, layman, or professor, this book is worth the effort. -- Robert Dienesch * The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord *An impressive and important work of scholarship that nevertheless manages to remain readable and accessible to the nonspecialist. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *Suppressing Piracy will be valuable for historians of eighteenth-century trade, empire, colonial, politics, and piracy, among others. * JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES *Writing with energy and skill, Wilson is an important new voice in maritime history. Wilson's study is essential reading for all those interested in colonial and imperial history, maritime history, and the so-called 'Golden Age' of piracy. * GLOBAL MARITIME HISTORY *By focusing on the local circumstances and experience of life and of trade in the British Empire, Wilson provides a much-needed counterbalance to previous piracy studies, which place the imperial metropole at the heart of the narrative on the economy, trade, regulation and law enforcement (including piracy suppression). -- Guy Chet * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Peacetime Disputes and the Rise of Piracy Chapter Two: Caribbean Piracy and the Protection of Trade Chapter Three: Woodes Rogers and Private Enterprise in New Providence Chapter Four: Colonial Maritime Defence and Piracy in North America Chapter Five: The Slave Trading Lobby and Piracy in West Africa Chapter Six: Piracy and Company Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean Chapter Seven: The Structural Weaknesses of Piracy and Imperial Maritime Power in the Western Atlantic Conclusion Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPresents a wealth of original research findings on how medieval ports actually worked, providing new insights on shipping, trade, port society and culture, and systems of regional and international integration. This book responds to the increasing interest of maritime historians in the study of ports. These enclaves offer significant insights into a variety of subjects, including ships and shipping; trade, commodities, and consumption patterns; the economy, society and culture of port workers and port communities; and systems of regional and international integration. Based on extensive research in a wide range of European archives, the book provides much detailon the nature of ports in the medieval period, especially on the crucial subject of the operation of ports. Covering a range of ports in France, Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands, the book contains a wealth of original research findings. It will be particularly welcomed by English-speaking scholars and others outside the region analysed, since it gives access to non-English-language archives, thereby considerably enriching the study of medieval portsbeyond ports in Britain and Ireland.Trade ReviewThis book is exceptionally easy to read, quite probably the result of the 'silent and dedicated work' of Prisca Toftegaard in translation. The text flows beautifully and does justice to a fine and often fascinating set of studies which open up a wealth of French and Iberian research to English-speaking audiences. -- MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY[An] indispensable volume for anyone interested in late medieval Atlantic ports and their role in the development of international trade and shipping. * FRANCIA RECENSIO *This book surely opens broad avenues of research for future scholars working on late medieval and early modern maritime and urban history, making a relevant contribution to historiography. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsIntroduction Eduardo Aznar Vallejo 1. Defining Jurisdictional Frameworks for Maritime and Coastal Activities: The Example of the Atlantic Ports of the Kingdom of France in the Second Half of the Middle Ages Mathias Tranchant 2. Basque Stevedoring and Cargo Handling Infrastructures (14th-16th Centuries) Ana María Rivera Medina 3. Port Structures and Cargo Handling in Asturias and Galicia (13th-16th Centuries) María Álvarez Fernández 4. Slave Trade and Northern Portuguese Seaport Operations in the Sixteenth Century Amândio J.M. Barros 5. Transport and Shipping in the Portuguese Northern Border in the Sixteenth Century Sara Pinto 6. Anchorages, Infrastructures and Stevedoring in Medieval Atlantic Andalusia Enrique José Ruiz Pilares 7. Ports and Port Labour in Tenerife during the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age Roberto J. González Zalacain Conclusions: The Port Phenomenon of Medieval Atlantic Europe Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and Anglo-French diplomacy, but this has not always been highlighted sufficiently even though Britain and France were at war for most of the period 1689-1815. This book considers a wide range of maritime subjects where the role of the Channel Islands has been significant, such as intelligence gathering, piracy and privateering, and naval strategy and control of the Channel. It also examines topics in relation to the Channel Islands specifically, such as surveying and hydrography, fortifications, trade and Channel Islands societies. It charts changes over time, including the impact of technological changes, from the wars of Louis XIV and William III, through the many Anglo-French wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and includes planning for wars which were anticipated but avoided. Throughout the issues are discussed from the perspectives of Britain, France and the Channel Islands themselves, equal weight being given to all three perspectives. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Colin Partridge is a former consultant to the States of Guernsey's 'Fortress Guernsey' programme for the restoration and interpretation of Guernsey's fortifications. Jean de Préneuf is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille and Head of the Research, Teaching and Studies Unit at the Historical Branch of the French Ministry of Defence at Vincennes.Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Preface Introduction: 'The Ehrenbreitstein of the English Channel', Andrew Lambert Part 1: Corsairs: the Ancien régime and French Wars from 1689 1. Granville's Privateers and Anglo-French Conflict in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,Michel Aumont 2. 'Fire No Guns, Shed No Tears': Channel Island Privateers, British Strategic Thinking, and the Politics of Neutrality During the Seven Years War,Anna Brinkman-Schwartz Part 2: The Islands - French and British intelligence from the Seven Years War to 1815 3. The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Strategy, 1756-82, Richard Harding Part 3: Territorial Waters - The Land and Sea Interface from 17th to 20th centuries 4. Channel Islands Territorialisation: A challenge between Local, National, and International Law (XVII° - XIX°), Frédéric Saffroy 5. Surveying the Islands: Captain Martin White RN and the Hydrography of the Islands, Michael Barritt: Part 4: Engineering strategic change. 6. The development and fate of the Channel Harbours of Refuge, William Allsop Part 5: Alderney and the Channel Islands - Naval Strategy from 1815 to 1905 7. French Naval Strategy and the Anglo-Norman Islands 1815-to 1914, Jean de Préneuf: 8. Commanding the Channel: The Channel Islands in British Grand Strategy, 1814 -1914,Andrew Lambert Part 6: Civil Societies and Anglo-French Naval Rivalry - the 19th century to WWI 9. Hydrographic and nautical knowledge in French coastal defence strategy: the case of Channel Islands area,Isabelle Delumeau: 10. Alderney: The Impact of National Defence, Colin Partridge Part 7: Trade War - the protection of Channel Islands shipping in the Great War 11. The Channel Islands in French Naval Strategy during the First World War, Thomas Vaisset 12. Royal Navy Trade Defence in the English Channel during the First World War, Alexander Howlett Afterword: Alderney, The Channel Islands, and the Study of History, Alan James Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia and the often underappreciated prowess of the Russian navy. Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia continued throughout the eighteenth century, with Britain providing huge assistance to the growth of Russia's navy, and Russia making an essential but often overlooked contribution to Britain's maritime power in the period. From 1698 when Tsar Peter the Great served briefly as a trainee shipwright at Deptford dockyard Russia recruited British, often Scottish, shipwrights, engineers, naval officers and naval surgeons who both helped build up the Russian navy and who were also key advisers to the Russian navy at sea. At the same time, naval stores from Russia, especially after Britain lost the American colonies, were vital for the maintenance of Britain's fleet. Moreover, as this book argues, Russian naval power was much more formidable than is often realised, with the Russian navy active alongside the British fleet in the North Sea and winning decisive battles against the Ottoman navy in the Mediterranean, including the battles of Çeşme in 1770 and Navarino in 1827. Britain did well to have Russia as a naval ally rather than an enemy. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this important subject, at a time when Britain's relationship with Russia is of considerable concern.Trade ReviewThis book provides a strong challenge to current interpretations of the early modern alliance between Russia and Britain. MacDougall's work helps to invite new ways of thinking about alliances beyond formal political arrangements. -- Kiri Raber * H-War *An accessible and informative history of one of the most important relationships in the eighteenth century. The focus on Russia's naval history produces an alternative perspective on some well-worn tropes of Russian history. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface 1. Peter Mikhailov Travels to England 2.The First Entente Cordiale 3.Naval Collaboration 4. Harmony in Trade 5.Growing Naval Affinity under Three Empresses 6.Trade, Aid and Logistical Support 7.The Onset of Total War 8.The French Revolutionary War 9.The War Against Napoleon 10.Endgame Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. This book examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. For most of the century the Scottish crown had no separate naval force which made the Stuart monarchs' navy, seen by them as a personal not a state force, unusual in being an institution which had a relationship with both kingdoms. This did not necessarily make the navy a shared organisation, as it continued to be financed from and based in England and was predominantly English. Nevertheless, the navy is an unusually good prism through which the nature of the regal union can be interrogated as English commanded ships interacted with Scottish authorities, and as Scots looked to the navy for protection from foreign invaders, such as the Dutch in the Forth in 1667, and for Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Conventions Introduction: New Histories and Composite Monarchies I. Aspiration 1603-52 1. A Whole Isle: Jacobean navy and union 2. Union of Arms: War against France and Spain 1625-30 3. Sovereignty of the British Seas: Union of maritime rights? 4. Covenant and Union: The navy and the formulation of Covenanter policy 5. Engagement and Conquest: Sea power and the Covenanters' defeat II. Integration 1652-88 6. Accessory Union: The Cromwellian occupation 7. Lowestoft to Leith: The Second Dutch War 8. Britannia: British aspects of the Restoration navy 9. Toward Union of the Admiralties: British command in the Restoration era III. Disruption 1688-170710. Revolution: The navy and the Franco-Jacobite threat 11. Embargo: Tensions surrounding economic warfare at sea 12. One Navy to Two: The rebirth of a Scottish squadron 13. Acts and Wars of Succession: The two navies to the union 14. Parliamentary Union: The navy in the union debate Conclusion: A Shared Institution? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a customs-enforcement interceptor on the North American eastern seaboard in the period leading up to the American Declaration of Independence, when British taxation of American trade was a hugely contentious issue. As a typical workaday British American merchant ship taken into naval service, Sultana offers a rare opportunity to understand a technology of paramount importance to this world, where records for merchant ships are scarce, but where in this case a wealth of information, from plan drawings to the fully-intact logbooks, has survived. The book provides a detailed narrative of the ship's activities, and reveals the nature of life on board and the day to day business of operating a small sailing ship. It explores the technology of the ship and her sailing qualities as revealed by the ship's logs and also by the performance of a modern replica. In addition, the book situates Sultana's role within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. It is thereby both naval microhistory and also Atlantic history for all scholars interested in the formation and development of the British Atlantic world.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Royal Navy Buys a Boston-built Schooner, August 1767-September 1768 2. Back to New England and First Patrols, September 1768-July 1769 3. The Chesapeake and Rhode Island, July 1769-August 1771 4. The Delaware River, August 1771-July 1772 5. Back to England, July-December 1772 6. Sold Out of the Service: Sultana and the Royal Navy in British America Appendix A. Sailing Sultana Appendix B. The Crew of Sultana Appendix C. Vessels and Cargoes Intercepted by Sultana Appendix D. Damage, Repairs, and Maintenance Appendix E. The Thirty-Two-Point Compass Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as advisers to the Principal Supply Officers Committee. They provided the state with priceless advice, but, as “insiders” utilised their access to information to build a business empire at a fraction of the normal costs. Outsiders, in contrast, lacked influence and were forced together into a defensive “ring” – or cartel – which effectively fixed prices for British warships. By the 1930s, the cartel grew into one of the most sophisticated profiteering groups of its day. This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen, and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the military-industrial complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government organisation. It blends together political, naval, and business history in new ways, and, by situating the business activities of industrialists alongside their work as government advisors, sheds new light on the operation of the British state. This is the story of how these men profited while effectively saving the National Government from itself.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative work forms a comprehensive examination of the legal and historical context of marine insurance, providing a detailed overview of the events and factors leading to its codification in the Marine Insurance Act 1906. It investigates the development of the legal principles and case law that underpin the Act to reveal how successful this codification truly was, and to demonstrate how these historical precedents remain relevant to marine insurance law to this day.Beginning with the pivotal year of 1756, Rob Merkin QC organises his analysis era by era, situating the leading cases and emerging fundamentals of the marine insurance industry in the context of external events such as war, the growth of free international trade, and the expansion of empire. Offering insight into the origins of familiar legal principles in the field, the book provides a deeper understanding of the legal framework within which historical events took place and how this shaped both the development of marine insurance law and the political and economic circumstances surrounding it.Key features include: In-depth research by one of the leading experts in marine insurance law Context for and therefore deeper understanding of legal principles in the field An authoritative account of the development of modern law of marine insurance through its historical roots. Legal historians interested in marine insurance and international maritime law more broadly as well as other historians of the period will find the depth of research and breadth of coverage in this book invaluable. Its grounding of important principles in their historical context will also be useful to practising lawyers in the field grappling with current marine insurance issues.Trade Review‘This is a monumental work which deserves a readership amongst insurance lawyers and professional insurers, and a wider readership amongst those who are interested in commercial and social history.’ -- Peter MacDonald Eggers, The Journal of International Maritime Law‘The long stability of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 gives the impression that it is the culmination of everything that needed to be said about marine insurance. Anyone who wants to look behind the serene, unruffled exterior of the Act will discover that it masks a long and unsettled history from a time when maritime trade was hotly contested. There could be no better companion in exploring that history than Professor Merkin’s endlessly fascinating new book.’ -- Martin Davies, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly‘The book provides a history of marine insurance law from 1756-1906 and, in particular, highlights the fascinating influence of war and conflict on the development of insurance law and practice. This is a history of trade and conflict through the prism of law and will be of interest not merely to historians, but also to practitioners who need to understand how and why particular clauses were developed and the contemporary understandings which underpinned the drafting of the Marine Insurance Act 1906.’ -- Professor Nick Gaskell, University of Queensland, Australia‘This monumental and meticulous work by one of the leading authorities in insurance law is the first to address comprehensively the history of the legal provisions and jurisprudence relating to marine insurance. Focussing mainly on British, American and European history, it will prove an invaluable and fascinating resource for all students and scholars across a range of disciplines who require a definitive exposition of the evolution of this body of law.’ -- Chantal Stebbings, University of Exeter, UK'Rob Merkin's remarkable book delivers much more than its rather modest title promises. It includes a broad-ranging history, both political and nautical, of three centuries of wars and alliances affecting English and American trade. It shows how war, prize, capture by pirates and privateers, blockades, slavery, and the depredations of Confederate cruisers affected the development of the principles of English marine insurance law and practice. Dense and detailed but easy to follow, the connections that it explains are invaluable.' -- Martin Davies, Tulane University Law School, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Dame Sara Cockerill Preface 1. The framework of the Law of the Sea 2. Marine insurance in 1756 3. War, diplomacy and the Americas: 1756 to 1783 4. Perils on the seas: 1783 to 1815 5. Anglo-American trade and relations: 1783 to 1815 6. Marine insurance in an era of war: 1756 to 1815 7. Marine insurance in an era of war: 1756 to 1815 II Volume II 8. Trade and diplomacy after 1815 9. Marine insurance in an era of peace: 1815 to 1861 10. Slavery and the slave trade 11. The American civil war and British neutrality 12. The Confederate cruisers 13. The Alabama arbitration 14. Marine insurance in an era of neutrality: 1861 to 1875 15. Consolidating the Empire 16. Marine insurance in an era of Empire: 1875 to 1906 17. The Marine Insurance Act 1906 Index

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Book SynopsisEconomic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this volume forwards an international perspective upon the intersection of maritime history, strategy, and diplomacy. Core themes include the role of ‘economic warfare’ in maritime strategic thought, prevalence of economic competition below the threshold of open conflict, and the role non-state actors have played in the prosecution of economic warfare. Using unique material from 18 different archives across six countries, this volume explores critical moments in the development of economic warfare, naval technology, and international law, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War. Distinct chapters also analyse the role of economic warfare in theories of maritime strategy, and what the future holds for the changing role of navies in the floating global economy of the twenty-first century.Trade Review‘This volume furnishes a timely, eye-opening, and persuasive assessment of both its strengths and its limitations.’ John Beeler, Journal of Military History

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Book SynopsisIn a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as advisers to the Principal Supply Officers Committee. They provided the state with priceless advice, but, as “insiders” utilised their access to information to build a business empire at a fraction of the normal costs. Outsiders, in contrast, lacked influence and were forced together into a defensive “ring” – or cartel – which effectively fixed prices for British warships. By the 1930s, the cartel grew into one of the most sophisticated profiteering groups of its day. This book examines the relationship between the private naval armaments industry, businessmen, and the British government defence planners between the wars. It reassesses the concept of the military-industrial complex through the impact of disarmament upon private industry, the role of leading industrialists in supply and procurement policy, and the successes and failings of government organisation. It blends together political, naval, and business history in new ways, and, by situating the business activities of industrialists alongside their work as government advisors, sheds new light on the operation of the British state. This is the story of how these men profited while effectively saving the National Government from itself.

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Book SynopsisRecent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and armed fishing craft were continually on the maritime front line throughout the conflict; they formed the backbone of the Auxiliary Patrol and were in constant action against-U-boats or engaged on unrelenting minesweeping duties. Approximately 3000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and armed by the Admiralty and more than 39,000 fishermen joined the Trawler Section of the Royal Naval Reserve. The class and cultural gap between working fishermen and many RN officers was enormous. This book examines the multifaceted role that fishermen and the fish trade played throughout the conflict. It examines the reasons why, in an age of dreadnoughts and other high-tech military equipment, so many fishermen and fishing vessels were called upon to play such a crucial role in the littoral war against mines and U-boats, not only around the British Isles but also off the coasts of various other theatres of war. It will analyse the nature of the fishing industry’s war-time involvement and also the contribution that non-belligerent fishing vessels continued to play in maintaining the beleaguered nation’s food supplies.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: Fish and Naval Forces: The Edwardian BackgroundChapter Two: 1914: The Early Months of the WarChapter Three: The Trawler Reserve and Minesweeping: January 1915 to December 1917Chapter Four: Offensive ActionsChapter Five: Fighting OverseasChapter Six: Fishing During the Great WarChapter Seven: 1918: Mine Sweeping and Anti-Submarine Operations during the Final YearChapter Eight: The AftermathEpilogue: Contribution and Cost

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection re-examines the relationship between art and the sea, reflecting growing interest in the intersections between art and maritime history. Artists have always been fascinated by and drawn to the sea and this book considers some of the themes and approaches in art that have evolved as a result of this captivation. The chapters consider how an examination of art can provide new insights into existing knowledge of port and maritime history, and are representative of a ‘cultural turn’ in port and maritime studies, which is becoming increasingly visible. In Art and the Sea, multiple perspectives are offered as a result of the contributors’ individual positions and methodologies: some museological, others art historical or maritime-historical. Each chapter proposes a new way of building upon available interpretations of port and maritime history: whether this be to reject, support or reconsider existing knowledge. The book as a whole is a timely addition, therefore, to the developing body of revisionist texts in port and maritime history. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume relates to a current trend for interdisciplinarity in art history and will appeal to those with an interest in art history, geography, sociology, history and transport / maritime studies.Trade Review'In a time when, in the editor's words, "[there is an] increasing tendency for specialisation in all areas of scholarship", this book ably demonstrates how bringing different disciplines together informs the discussion and provides new insights.' Graham Gladden, Journal of Transport HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Images Introduction: Emma Roberts Chapter 1: Paintings of Ports and Ships at Canton of the Qing Dynasty China during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Junfu Wong Chapter 2: The Art of Cable-Laying. Morgan Daniels Chapter 3: Victorian Identity and the Sea: Imagining the Nation Within Banal Maritime Art. David Williams Chapter 4: “And so the idea of the Collection was born”. The Macpherson Collection of Maritime Prints from its Inception to the First Display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Silvia Massa Chapter 5: Lie Back and Drink of England: National Identity, Nostalgia, and Sea Travel in Edward Bawden’s The English Pub. Samuel Love Chapter 6: The Paintings of Walter Hemming at the German Maritime Museum: Contextualizing Conformity with the National Socialist Regime. Gisela Parak Chapter 7: Designing the Ocean Liners of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. James J. Fortuna Chapter 8: Illuminating the History of the HMS Conway Training Ship Through Stained Glass Windows. Wayne Turnbull Epilogue: Emma Roberts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of ‘sailor talk.’ The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich, layered, and complex culture of sailors in port and at sea. From this argument many other compelling threads emerge, including questions relating to the seafarer’s multifaceted identity, maritime labor, questions of performativity, the ship as ‘theater,’ the varied and multiple registers of ‘sailor talk,’ and the foundational role of maritime language in the lives and works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London. The book also includes nods to James Fenimore Cooper, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Meticulous scholarly research underpins the close readings of literary texts and the scrupulously detailed biographical accounts of three major sailor-writers. The author’s own lived experience as a seafarer adds a refreshingly materialist dimension to the subtle literary readings. The book represents a valuable addition to a growing scholarly and political interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor’s viewpoint and listening to sailors’ voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.Trade Review‘A rich, meticulously researched, and engaging exploration of the literary and cultural significance of \“sailor talk\”.’ Dr Emily Cuming, Liverpool John Moores University‘A thoroughly knowledgeable and excellently researched book, full of fascinating information and analysis, which makes a valuable addition to a growing scholarly interest in the sea and sea literature. By taking the sailor’s viewpoint and listening to sailors’ voices, the book also marks a clear intervention in this developing field.’ Professor Graham Thompson, University of Nottingham‘Edwards adeptly moves between the part and the whole, contextualising textual specifics in relation to broader facets of historical experience, and thus speaks to an array of maritime literary and historical critical interests… intricate, visceral knowledge of seafaring enables Edwards to construct for the reader a constantly vivid and engaging picture of the maritime experience and, coupled with her attentive eye for close reading, this lends itself to some truly original and illuminating insights into the details of the texts… the result is a book that is as compelling to read as it is informative.’ Charlotte Mathieson, International Journal of Maritime HistoryTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: SailorsChapter 2: OralityChapter 3: Herman MelvilleChapter 4: Joseph ConradChapter 5: Jack LondonAfterwordWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go to sea. Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific provides a corrective to studies which overlook this region’s significance as a provider of the world’s maritime labour force and where unions have a rich history of reaching across their differences to forge connections in solidarity. From the ‘militant young Australian’ Harry Bridges whose progressive unionism transformed the San Francisco waterfront, to Australia’s successful implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, this is a story of vision and leadership on the international stage. Unionists who saw themselves as internationalists were also operating within a national and imperial framework where conflicting interests and differences of race and ideology had to be overcome. Union activists in India, China and Japan struggled against indentured labour and ‘coolie’ standards. They linked with their fellow-unionists in pursuing an ideal of international labour rights against the power of shipowners and anti-union governments. This is a complex story of endurance, cooperation and conflict and its empowering legacy.Trade Review‘While maintaining a focus on their Australian and New Zealand central actors, Kirkby et. al. offer a comprehensive examination of seafaring and dock labor conflicts across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Altogether, an impressive tribute to the marriage of scholarly resolve with underlying democratic political idealism.’ Leon Fink, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago‘Considering maritime labour, internationalism and race in the twentieth century, this is an intellectually innovative study based on very extensive research. At a moment of urgent industrial and political struggle over the conditions of maritime labour, it should be widely read.’ Professor Sean Scalmer, University of Melbourne‘Maritime Men offers a new way to see maritime workers and their organising strategies… The book is particularly strong in tracing changes in technology and law which took place from the 1970s… In offering such stimulating perspectives, this book opens up maritime industries to their global – and, for Australia, their regional – context. Kirkby, Monk and Ostapenko draw the links between the maritime unionists as individuals, as members of their national unions and, most importantly, participants of international labour networks in the globalising shipping industry. This allows greater insights into the conflicts and solidarities which challenged those maritime workers, forcing them apart at times but also bringing them together.’ Heather Goodall, History Australia‘The research is detailed, and the analysis nuanced and compelling. This is a big picture but evidentiarily rich book of the type so desperately needed in challenging times… by far the most compelling and nuanced account yet written of how labour markets, regulation, unionism, racism and internationalism intersected in the maritime industry in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.’ Michael Quinlan, Australian Historical Studies‘International legal history is rarely written as convincingly… a subtle treatment of the interaction between racism and the protection of hard won Australian rights to pay and conditions. The authors offer readers new perspectives… fleshing out the human side of a complex story… drawing out the complexity of the issues under consideration with nuance and depth, while remaining highly readable. The book offers an outstanding contribution to union and labour history, as well as the history of the Asia-Pacific more broadly.’ Judges of the ANZLHS 2023 Prize for Legal HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: ‘By the nature of their calling’ Themes of region, race and militancy Chapter 2: ‘Navigation as it affects the Empire’: Australasian Labour Standards and British Merchant Shipping Chapter 3: ‘The Commonwealth and the Lascars’: Protecting Maritime Workers in a White Australia 1901-1914 Chapter 4: ‘to break down the barriers which separate races and countries’: Socialists, Maritime Unions and Organising Internationally Before 1920 Chapter 5: ‘Our duty is to foster a spirit of internationality’: Maritime Unions and International Labour Organising in the Aftermath of War Chapter 6: ‘To ensure…fair conditions of labor’: Navigating Class, Nation and Empire in 1920s Chapter 7: ‘Seamen of the Orient’: Globalising the ITF and Embracing Asia c.1920s-30s Chapter 8: ‘Lascar Seamen Stand Up for Rights’: Asserting Independence c.1930s-1949 Chapter 9: ‘… standards for all seamen, Indian, Chinese and European’: Internationalism in the Cold War Asia-Pacific Chapter 10: ‘Bogey-men of the Pacific’: Trans-Pacific Dockworker Organising, 1940s-60s Chapter 11: ‘Giving us a voice in world affairs’: International Leadership and Activism, 1960-80 Chapter 12: ‘protect[ing] workers against shoddy foreign companies’: International Labourers and National Unionists, 1960s-2000 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Prize for 2023 Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history. This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go to sea. Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific provides a corrective to studies which overlook this region’s significance as a provider of the world’s maritime labour force and where unions have a rich history of reaching across their differences to forge connections in solidarity. From the ‘militant young Australian’ Harry Bridges whose progressive unionism transformed the San Francisco waterfront, to Australia’s successful implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, this is a story of vision and leadership on the international stage. Unionists who saw themselves as internationalists were also operating within a national and imperial framework where conflicting interests and differences of race and ideology had to be overcome. Union activists in India, China and Japan struggled against indentured labour and ‘coolie’ standards. They linked with their fellow-unionists in pursuing an ideal of international labour rights against the power of shipowners and anti-union governments. This is a complex story of endurance, cooperation and conflict and its empowering legacy.Trade Review‘While maintaining a focus on their Australian and New Zealand central actors, Kirkby et. al. offer a comprehensive examination of seafaring and dock labor conflicts across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Altogether, an impressive tribute to the marriage of scholarly resolve with underlying democratic political idealism.’ Leon Fink, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago‘Considering maritime labour, internationalism and race in the twentieth century, this is an intellectually innovative study based on very extensive research. At a moment of urgent industrial and political struggle over the conditions of maritime labour, it should be widely read.’ Professor Sean Scalmer, University of Melbourne‘Maritime Men offers a new way to see maritime workers and their organising strategies… The book is particularly strong in tracing changes in technology and law which took place from the 1970s… In offering such stimulating perspectives, this book opens up maritime industries to their global – and, for Australia, their regional – context. Kirkby, Monk and Ostapenko draw the links between the maritime unionists as individuals, as members of their national unions and, most importantly, participants of international labour networks in the globalising shipping industry. This allows greater insights into the conflicts and solidarities which challenged those maritime workers, forcing them apart at times but also bringing them together.’ Heather Goodall, History Australia‘The research is detailed, and the analysis nuanced and compelling. This is a big picture but evidentiarily rich book of the type so desperately needed in challenging times… by far the most compelling and nuanced account yet written of how labour markets, regulation, unionism, racism and internationalism intersected in the maritime industry in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.’ Michael Quinlan, Australian Historical Studies‘International legal history is rarely written as convincingly… a subtle treatment of the interaction between racism and the protection of hard won Australian rights to pay and conditions. The authors offer readers new perspectives… fleshing out the human side of a complex story… drawing out the complexity of the issues under consideration with nuance and depth, while remaining highly readable. The book offers an outstanding contribution to union and labour history, as well as the history of the Asia-Pacific more broadly.’ Judges of the ANZLHS 2023 Prize for Legal HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: ‘By the nature of their calling’ Themes of region, race and militancy Chapter 2: ‘Navigation as it affects the Empire’: Australasian Labour Standards and British Merchant Shipping Chapter 3: ‘The Commonwealth and the Lascars’: Protecting Maritime Workers in a White Australia 1901-1914 Chapter 4: ‘to break down the barriers which separate races and countries’: Socialists, Maritime Unions and Organising Internationally Before 1920 Chapter 5: ‘Our duty is to foster a spirit of internationality’: Maritime Unions and International Labour Organising in the Aftermath of War Chapter 6: ‘To ensure…fair conditions of labor’: Navigating Class, Nation and Empire in 1920s Chapter 7: ‘Seamen of the Orient’: Globalising the ITF and Embracing Asia c.1920s-30s Chapter 8: ‘Lascar Seamen Stand Up for Rights’: Asserting Independence c.1930s-1949 Chapter 9: ‘… standards for all seamen, Indian, Chinese and European’: Internationalism in the Cold War Asia-Pacific Chapter 10: ‘Bogey-men of the Pacific’: Trans-Pacific Dockworker Organising, 1940s-60s Chapter 11: ‘Giving us a voice in world affairs’: International Leadership and Activism, 1960-80 Chapter 12: ‘protect[ing] workers against shoddy foreign companies’: International Labourers and National Unionists, 1960s-2000 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEconomic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this volume forwards an international perspective upon the intersection of maritime history, strategy, and diplomacy. Core themes include the role of ‘economic warfare’ in maritime strategic thought, prevalence of economic competition below the threshold of open conflict, and the role non-state actors have played in the prosecution of economic warfare. Using unique material from 18 different archives across six countries, this volume explores critical moments in the development of economic warfare, naval technology, and international law, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and the Second World War. Distinct chapters also analyse the role of economic warfare in theories of maritime strategy, and what the future holds for the changing role of navies in the floating global economy of the twenty-first century.Trade Review‘This volume furnishes a timely, eye-opening, and persuasive assessment of both its strengths and its limitations.’ John Beeler, Journal of Military History

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Book SynopsisThe book is the first to detail the 170-year evolution of the powered bulk carriers which continue to have a major role in the world’s trades and economies. Their design and technological development is traced from the screw colliers of the 1850s which revolutionised the British coastal coal trade. The same engineering principles were applied to produce ocean-going steam and later motor tramps. By the end of the 19th century, the capabilities and economies of these ‘black freighters’ had captured from the sailing ship much of the world’s trade in bulk commodities. In the second half of the 20th century, the tramps in turn evolved into multi-purpose, dry bulk carriers. These workhorses of the sea transport commodities including metallic ores, grain, coal, timber and other minerals. Quantities of up to 400,000 tons are carried in the largest, specialised ore carriers. In a parallel development, applying the same technical principles produced smaller yet efficient steam and later motor coasters which came to dominate short sea shipping. The book concludes with a discussion of how the economies of transportation provided by bulk carriers have had profound effects on industrialisation, globalisation and the world’s economy, and discusses the environmental impact of these ships.Trade Review'One of the best and most thorough expositions of a complicated subject that I have ever read, a book that fills a huge gap in our maritime history during one of its most crucial periods. Britain 'ruled the waves' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but there is a tendency to think that this was due to naval warships or huge ocean liners! This book shows that without the humble 'black freighters', Britain’s maritime pre-eminence would have been inconceivable.' Dr David Jenkins, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales

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Book SynopsisBeyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting grounds. Combining with wider global factors, the move brought an end to long-established trawling practices, with profound social, economic and cultural repercussions. Through a case study of the port of Hull, oral history and archival research explore the challenges, responses and legacy of rapid change. Although the emphasis is on Hull, this is far from a local history. Hull’s position among the world leading distant-water pioneers gives the story international significance. Focusing on memory, lived experience and place, the book goes beyond established narratives. Personal acts of remembering offer cultural perspectives on how global events and marine policy impact upon the seafaring communities that live with the consequences. The Cod Wars signaled an end, yet amid the disruption there were also new beginnings. And in the wake of an active fishery, the rhythms of the past continue to resonate in the negotiation of fishing heritage within the contemporary city. Through the convergence of time, place and memory, this holistic narrative of interweaving stories reveals the intricacies of our human interaction with the marine environment and the aftermath when its threads are broken.Trade Review'This is a fine piece of work, based on extensive archival and oral history research, which makes an important and original contribution.' Dr Graeme Milne, University of Liverpool‘The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on historical analysis, cultural geography and critical heritage studies, is highly welcome. Most refreshing of all, though, is Byrne’s adoption of an oral history methodology to enrich the analysis. Indeed, the real heart of this book lies in the recovery of the voices of the men and women who lived through this troubled period of the city’s long history. Through incorporating their rich oral testimonies, Byrne vividly and evocatively brings to life their lived experiences, and the recollections of the likes of fishers Michael and Thomas and factory worker Margaret add real poignancy to the narrative as their life stories are captured within the book’s pages… Beyond Trawlertown is a vividly-rendered, evocative history that captures the human cost of the decline in Hull’s distant-water fishing industry.’ Robert James, Northern History'Beyond Trawlertown broadly focuses on an unforgiving, dangerous occupation, a seacoast town, technological advances in an industry, and the effect on men from several nations who competed for a rapidly dwindling resource… Jo Byrne's work is a multifaceted textbook of the history and politics of the UK fishing industry, a philosophical essay, and a warning to other prominent fishing ports around the world.' Louis Arthur NortionTable of ContentsList of MapsList of FiguresAbbreviationsGlossary of Fishing and Nautical TermsGlossary of Local TermsPreface: Starting the JourneyChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Trawling Lives and Culture – A Portrait up to 1976Chapter Three: A New Fishing World OrderChapter Four: Living Through the AftermathChapter Five: New HorizonsChapter Six: The Life and Death of TrawlertownChapter Seven: RemembranceChapter Eight: Beyond TrawlertownAppendicesAcknowledgementsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the 1,500 or so common seamen of the American merchant marine who were held as prisoners of war in France during the Napoleonic Wars.Based on extensive original research, this book tells the story of the 1,500 or so common seamen of the American merchant marine who were held as prisoners of war in France during the Napoleonic Wars. Although the United States was neutral, Napoleon interpreted neutrality narrowly, and included among the enemy merchants doing business with the enemy and seamen working on enemy vessels. Drawing on remarkably full source material in French, American and British archives, including the seamen's letters, their pleas for help to the consuls, the correspondence about them between the French authorities and the US diplomatic service, and the British Admiralty lists of prisoners, the book reveals a great deal about who these seamen were, and about their vastly different experience in French prisons. It contrasts their fate with that of British seamen and officers, discusses the labyrinthine maritime laws that ensnared the seamen and how their nationality, in an era before passports, was determined, charts the establishment of the US consular service, first established at this time to help "distressed American seamen", and relates the American seamen's experiences to the wider scholarly literature. Throughout, the book includes fascinating case studies of the adventures and misadventures of individual seamen.

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Book SynopsisExplores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century.

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Book SynopsisThe Development of the EU as a Sea-Policy Actor explores the marine and maritime policies of the European Union (EU), including fisheries, maritime transport, marine environment and maritime safety policies. These policies have made the EU an important sea-policy actor internally and externally. The author places the EU's sea-related policies in a historical context and discusses the explanatory power of various political science theories, international relations and regional integration theories in particular. What emerges clearly is that no one theory can explain the observed developments, but that we need to combine theories to get a fuller understanding and explanation of what is also referred to as the Blue Europe. Entrepreneurship and small business management educators, researchers, scholars, university administrators and mentors and advisors to entrepreneurs will glean the latest insights, programming overviews, best practices and contemporary perspectives that have real applications in these fields.Trade Review'Finn Laursen provides a masterly comprehensive narrative and analysis of how the European Union has emerged as a sea-policy actor, in part in response to external events and in part through the evolution of its membership structures and efforts at enhancing internal integration with external projections. Laursen uses a blend of international relations theories to help explain and demystify the complex structures and processes underlying the blue Europe. This is an eminently readable book of value to specialist and general readers alike.' --Aldo Chircop, Dalhousie University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: On The Law Of The Sea And European Integration 2. Analytical Considerations: On Theory And Concepts 3. The ‘Constitutional’ Basis Of The ‘Blue Europe’: Treaty-Based Sea-Related Competences And Policy-Making Procedures 4. The European Economic Community (EEC) and UNCLOS III: Competences, The Community Clause And Ratification 5. Initiation Of The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP): Equal Access, Derogations And The 200-Mile Zone Decision 6. The Conservation And Management Policy Of The CFP: TACS, Quotas And Sustainability 7. The Common Maritime Transport Policy (CMTP): Initiation And Development 8. Development Of Marine Environmental And Maritime Safety Policies 9. Maritime Security And Defence Policy And Maritime Border Control Policies: Initiation And Developments 10. The EU As An International Sea-Policy Actor 11. Implementation And Enforcement Of The EU’s Marine And Maritime Policies 12. Explanations And Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisA Modern History of Maritime Terrorism: From the Fenian Ram to Explosive-Laden Drone Boats is a comprehensive and insightful examination of the evolution of maritime terrorism in the modern era. Navigating the past, present and future of maritime terrorism, Peter Lehr outlines its history and definitions, its current manifestations, locations and actors, and its possible future trajectories.Structured in three key parts, this book takes a critical and historical approach to the study of maritime terrorism. Focussing on the terrorist actors’ perspectives, chapters investigate existing academic literature, official reports, newspaper articles and the actors’ own descriptions of their acts of terrorism. Lehr considers the motivations and expectations behind why terrorists take terrorism to the sea; the weapons and tactics used to do so; where they struck, and against what; and ultimately what they achieved. Considering the lessons learned from the history of maritime terrorism, the book concludes with an examination of the near-future trajectories it could take.A vivid and detailed account of the various forms of maritime terrorism that have emerged in the last century, this topical book will be invaluable to students and scholars of international relations, terrorism and security studies, and maritime politics and policy. Its comparative analysis of the patterns in the actors, locations and tactics in maritime terrorism will prove useful to practitioners seeking to plan and execute counter-terrorism operations.Trade Review‘Peter Lehr has produced an outstanding book on the history of maritime terrorism. By providing historical insights about our understanding of maritime terrorism with an in-depth analysis of highly interesting contemporary case studies, the book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of both the historical and empirical dynamics of the phenomenon. Indeed, this is an excellent book which provides a very interesting and compelling analysis of an important and largely under-researched topic.’ -- Christian Kaunert, Dublin City University, Ireland and University of South Wales, UK‘Peter Lehr’s A Modern History of Maritime Terrorism addresses an important and neglected area of terrorism studies. The potential for maritime terror has escalated dramatically since the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole. Lehr’s study offers a compelling, thoughtful and well-researched account of the history of maritime terrorism, its current manifestations, locations and perpetrators and potential future trajectories. This fine volume will be of enduring use to both scholars of terrorism and counter-terror practitioners.’ -- David Martin Jones, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Modern History of Maritime Terrorism PART I (PAST): MARITIME TERRORISM – A SHORT HISTORY 2 First ripples – early maritime terrorism 3 Challenging the state – Maritime terrorism as ‘propaganda by the deed’ 4 Birth of new nations – maritime terrorism and guerrilla warfare at sea PART II (PRESENT): MARITIME TERRORISM HERE AND NOW – GOING GLOBAL 5 Maritime Jihad – Al Qaeda at sea 6 Shadows of Jihad – maritime terrorism at the fringes of the “Al Qaeda Universe” 7 No princes of the sea – some observations PART III (FUTURE): SOME HORIZON SCANNING 8 Maritime terrorism of the future – actors and locations 9 The future of maritime terrorism – weapons and tactics 10 Conclusion – trickles and waves Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who went "on the account" (a classic euphemism for piracy) to deliver an engaging, closely interpreted anthology of seven decades of primary sources. The text comprises original monographs, handbills, trial records, newspaper articles, and official reports that deal with piracy in and involving the Americas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Joseph Gibbs annotates and explains these records in order to clarify the era's historical, legal, literary, and nautical references. Along the way readers will experience violent mutinies, vicious sea battles, anti-piracy raids on Louisiana islands and Latin American coasts, and the United States' first sustained encounter with the Barbary Corsairs. They will also catch glimpses of maritime brigands as remarkable as any that walked the decks of piracy's earlier "golden age" and encounter the naval officers and sailors who strove to bring them to rough justice. Enhanced with period maps and illustrations, the book provides an enlightening introduction to piracy's original canon as it emerged in the era of the quill pen and hand-turned press.

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Book SynopsisPiracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually more ugly and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read. A "prequel" to Gibbs' well received On the Account: Piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835, this book similarly presents primary sources chosen for authenticity. The contents are introduced, annotated, and carefully edited for modern readers. They offer a glimpse of piracy far removed from, and often more engaging than, the romanticised version provided by later writers and filmmakers. They describe, for example, the ordeal-filled marches of the Caribbean boucaniers, who were tough enough to eat leather while sacking the cities of the Spanish empire. They also shed light on the pirates' tactics at sea and on land; their practice of "forcing" captives to join them; their often-sadistic cruelty; and their ships' "articles" and the primitive democratic standards they upheld. Enhanced with classic maps and illustrations, The Golden Age offers an unvarnished look at those who sailed and often died under the dreaded black and red flags of the era. Readers will see pirates as they actually were -- in pursuit of prey, in battle, and sometimes on the way to the gallows.

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Book SynopsisDuring the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and ‘top men’, working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merchantmen below deck; as cooks, stewards and stokers. Nevertheless, the navy was possibly a unique institution in that black and white could work alongside each other more than in any other occupation. In this fascinating work, Dr. Ray Costello examines the work and experience of seamen of African descent in Britain’s navy, from impressed slaves to free Africans, British West Indians, and British-born Black sailors. Seamen from the Caribbean and directly from Africa have contributed to both the British Royal Navy and Merchant Marine from at least the Tudor period and by the end of the period of the British Slave Trade at least three percent of all crewmen were black mariners. Black sailors signed off in British ports helped the steady growth of a black population. In spite of racial prejudice in port, relationships were forged between sailors of different races which frequently ignored expected norms when working and living together in the isolated world of the ship. Black seamen on British ships have served as by no means a peripheral force within the British Royal and Mercantile navies and were not only to be found working in both the foreground and background of naval engagements throughout their long history, but helping to ensure the supply of foodstuffs and the necessities of life to Britain. Their experiences span the gamut of sorrow and tragedy, heroism, victory and triumph.Trade Review'This is a well researched and written title on a forgotten part of the Great War and is highly recommended.' Paul ReedTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction Timeline 1. Worlds Collide 2. Destination Uncertain 3. A Tar’s Life 4. War Under Sail 5. Blighty 6. A Question Of Rank 7. From Sail To Steam 8. Global Conflict 9. Sailortown Under Attack 10. The Second World War 11. After Empire 12. Epilogue Notes and References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat do characters as diverse as Alfred the Great, the architect Sir Christopher Wren, diarist Samuel Pepys and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins have in common? All had some involvement in shipwrecks: in causing, recording or salvaging them. This book examines a variety of wrecks from logboats, Roman galleys and medieval cogs to East Indiamen, grand ocean liners, fishing boats and warships - all are woven into the history of shipwrecks along the coastline of England and in her territorial waters. Wrecks are not just physically embedded in this marine landscape - they are also an intrinsic part of a domestic cultural landscape with links that go beyond the navy, mercantile marine and fishing trade. Evidence of shipwrecks is widespread: in literature, in domestic architecture and as a major component of industrial archaeology. Shipwrecks also transcend national boundaries, forming tangible monuments to the movement of goods and people between nations in war and peace. In peacetime they link the architecture and monuments of different countries, from shipyards to factories, warehouses to processing plants; in time of war wrecks have formed a landscape scattered across the oceans, linking friend and foe in common heritage. England's Shipwreck Heritage explores the type of evidence we have for shipwrecks and their causes, including the often devastating effects fo the natural environment and human-led disaster. Ships at war, global trade and the movement of people - such as passengers, convict transports and the slave trade - are also investigated. Along the way we meet the white elephant who perished in 1730, the medieval merchant who pursued a claim for compensation for nearly 20 years, the most famous privateer for the American revolutionary wars and the men who held their nerve in the minesweeper trawls of the First World War. Highly illustrated and based on extensive new research, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in England's maritime heritage.Trade ReviewIllustrated with a rich variety of historic images, contemporary engravings, paintings, and plates, and backed up with extensive archival reseach, this book's subtitle doesn't exaggerate - it charts everything from old log-boats through Roman wrecks, medieval cogs, East Indiamen and warships of all kinds up to submarines.Leigh Bishop, DiverTable of ContentsIntroduction Notes on the text 1. The hazards of the natural environment 2. Ships at war 3. The vagaries of human nature 4. The transport of people and goods around the world 5. Solving mysteries 6. How does it all come together? What is left to find out? Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisEngland has a long and involved relationship with the sea. It has provided a final line of defence against invasion, the route over which the country’s global trade has travelled, the source of a bountiful harvest of fish and seafood that has sustained the population, the essential links in the empire that saw Britain emerge as the world’s first ‘Great Power’, and, more recently, it has fostered the leisure industry. For many, the sea was to provide their final view of their homeland as emigration took them to far-flung corners of the world, while for others, perhaps fleeing religious or political persecution, the sea offered them a route to safety. For almost a century the photographers from the Aerofilms company recorded Britain from the air. Alongside the photographs taken of the great castles and abbeys of the country, the views also recorded industrial and commercial activity – including the docks and ports that were an essential part in maintaining Britain’s place in the world. In this book, Peter Waller has delved through the collection of Aerofilms photographs held by Historic England to explore the country’s maritime heritage. Selecting 150 images, the author looks at how the docks and ports have evolved since the years immediately after World War I, how traditional patterns of trade have changed, how the Royal Navy has shrunk and how the leisure industry has come to dominate.Trade Review'This volume is a worthy example of a Historic England publication. The book is a mine of visual information fully complemented by a generally extensive and well-informed text. It can be highly recommended.' Robert Carr, The International Journal for the History of Engineering & TechnologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Major ports and harbours 2. Smaller ports 3. Shipyards, ship breakers and ancillary industries 4. Port development 5. Royal Navy 6. Famous ships 7. Ferry terminals 8. Fishing ports 9. Maritime leisure 10. The downside

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