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International Maritime Economic History Association The Battle for the Migrants: Introduction of
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International Maritime Economic History Association Crossing the Bar: An Oral History of the British
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International Maritime Economic History Association War and Trade in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland
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Springer International Publishing AG Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700
Book SynopsisThis book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities. By merging these seemingly disparate strands in the scholarship of world history and medieval studies into a single volume, this book offers new insights into the history of medieval Sicily and the study of maritime violence. As several of the essays in this volume demonstrate, maritime violence fundamentally shaped experience in the medieval Mediterranean, as every ship that sailed, even those launched for commerce or travel, anticipated the possibility of encountering pirates, or dabbling in piracy themselves.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War: The Struggle for the Strait.- Chapter 3: The Sicilian Vespers: Roger de Lauria and the Ambiguities of Violence.- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese 1292 Expedition into the Aegean Sea.- Chapter 5: Logistical Arrangements Between Sicily and Southern Italy during Alfonso V’s Conquest of Naples, 1435-1442.- Chapter 6: Travel and Trade: Violence and Exchange in Post-Norman Sicily.- Chapter 7: Grand Tour and Pilgrimage: Sicily in the Imagination of Ibn Jubayr.- Chapter 8: Four men in a boat. Trade practices between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th and 13th centuries.- Chapter 9: Literary and Material Culture: Creating the "Communitas Siciliae" in the Post-Vespers Years.- Chapter 10: “The Luxuriant Southern Scene:” Textiles, Clothing and Memory in the Medieval Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily.- Chapter11: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc.- Chapter 12: Digital Sicily: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems.- Chapter 13: The Norman Sicily Project: A Digital Portal to Sicily's Norman Past.
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Getty Trust Publications Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific region in the age of imperialism. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires vied for commercial and political control of oceanic routes between Asia and the Americas. Transpacific Engagements addresses the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. This volume explores artistic expressions of imperial aspirations and imaginaries in the Philippines, Spain, Japan, and Hawaii; the transformations of texts, images, and culinary practices as they moved from one cultural context to another; and the movement of objects and people across the transpacific, with particular attention to the Manila Galleon trade that flourished from 1565 to 1815. Featuring contributions by art historians, anthropologists, historians, and cultural studies scholars, Transpacific Engagements gathers groundbreaking investigations of objects and histories to illustrate the role of East, South, and Southeast Asian polities and dynasties in these multilateral exchanges. Published by the Ayala Foundation, Inc. in association with the Getty Research Institute and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut).
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NIAS Press The UP Saga
Book SynopsisHistories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and on the rise and fall of big British-owned colonial enterprises. But since independence, the sector has entered a new phase of spectacular growth founded on the oil palm. This volume offers a radically different history of a firm which spans both eras. The fascinating story of United Plantations Berhad (UP) highlights a Scandinavian-founded firm that evolved along quite different lines from the normal models of British imperial business. Tracing the company's origins before the First World War, it describes the crisis years of economic depression and Japanese occupation then on to the years of spectacular growth which has lasted since the time of the Emergency and Merdeka right up to the present day. The success of this firm - based not just on an extraordinary combination of agricultural, engineering and marketing innovation but also on the company's engagement and commitment to its local environment - provides a glowing example of a partnership between Europeans and Asians which has benefited both sides.
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Stolpe Publishing The Baltic Sea. A Geopolitical history
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive anthology brings together leading scholars in history, political science, and international relations to explore the forces that have shaped the Baltic region from the 13th century to the present day.
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City University of Hong Kong Press Transport to Another World: HMS Tamar and the
Book SynopsisMementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar. From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions - for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world.In this engaging narrative, the Tamar's exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life the realities of imperial life on land and at sea. As mud continues to settle over the Tamar's forgotten remains in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, Transport to Another World will appeal to historians and readers interested in maritime history and colonial Hong Kong in general, and makes a case for conserving the memory of a past some would prefer to forget.Table of Contents Prologue: All Valiant Dust that Builds on Dust Part I: Far-called, Our Navies Part II: Drunk with Sight of Power Part Ill: On Dune and Headland Sinks the Fire Part IV: Still Stands Thine Ancient Sacrifice Epilogue: All Our Pomp of Yesterday
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia: History, Causes and Remedies
Book SynopsisThis book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of historical piracy help highlight causative factors of contemporary piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is still a thinkable option. The threats to life and property posed by piracy are relatively low, but significant given the strategic nature of these waterways that link the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and because piracy is emblematic of broader issues of weak state control in the littoral states of the region. Maritime piracy will never be completely eliminated, but with a progressive economic and political agenda aimed at changing the environment from which piracy is emerging, it could once again become the exception rather than the rule.Table of ContentsContemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia: History, Causes and Remedies Preliminary pages; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical Piracy in Southeast Asia; 3. Causative Factors of Contemporary Piracy; 4. Conclusions and A Way Forward; Appendix A. Background and Further Details of UNCLOS and SUA; Appendix B. Piracy Statistics; Bibliography; Index.
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NUS Press The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1981, ""The Sulu Zone"" has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian History. The book deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical ""border zone"" centred on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. The author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China trade, namely the advent of organized, long distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of captives on a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system.How entangled commodities, trajectories of tastes, and patterns of consumption and desire that span continents linked to slavery and slave raiding, the manipulation of diverse ethnic groups, the meaning and constitution of ""culture,"" and state formation? James Warren responds to this question by reconstructing the social, economic, and political relationships of diverse peoples in a multi-ethnic zone of which the Sulu Sultanate was the centre, and by problematizing important categories like ""piracy"", ""slavery"", ""culture"", ""ethnicity"", and the ""state"". His work analyzes the dynamics of the last autonomous Malayo-Muslim maritime state over a long historical period and describes its stunning response to the world capitalist economy and the rapid ""forward movement"" of colonialism and modernity.It also shows how the changing world of global cultural flows and economic interactions caused by cross-cultural trade and European dominance affected men and women who were forest dwellers, highlanders, and slaves, people who worked in everyday jobs as fishers, raiders, divers or traders. Often neglected by historians, the response of these members of society are a crucial part of the history of Southeast Asia.
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NUS Press China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368
Book SynopsisLo Jung-pang, a renowned professor at the University of California, Davis, completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 in 1957, but he died without arranging for the book to be published. Bruce Elleman, who found the manuscript in the UC Davis archives in 2004, has digitized the manuscript and edited it for length and accuracy. Lo Jung-pang argued that during each of the three occasions when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), the beginning was made by coastal states when China was divided, the height was reached when China was strong and unified, and the decline took place when China weakened, the people became absorbed by internal affairs, and the policy of the state became directed to the north and the west. These cycles of maritime interest, lasting roughly five hundred years, corresponded with cycles of cohesion and division, strength and weakness, prosperity and impoverishment, expansion and contraction. Today a strong and outward looking China is again building up its navy and seeking maritime dominance, with important implications for trade, diplomacy and naval affairs. Events will not necessarily follow the same course as in the past, but Lo Jung-pang's book suggests questions that can be raised for study as events unfold in the years and decades to come.
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NUS Press Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis
Book SynopsisAdmiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After his return to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608 he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.These materials contributed to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605?20, and they yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and their relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, and presented with 70 illustrations and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff's travelogue will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asian and early colonial history and of the history of international law.
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HardPress Publishing Memoria Sobre a Descoberta Das Ilhas De Porto Santo E Madeira 14181419 Fragmento De Um Livro Inedito
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HardPress Publishing The Wreck of the West India Steamship Tweed by an EyeWitness J.B. Cameron
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HardPress Publishing Derrotero De Las Costas De EspaÃa En El Mediterraneo Y Su Correspondiente De Africa
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Titchfield History Society A President Calls
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La vuelta al mundo maldita
Book SynopsisHabía que regresar. Al retornar Elcano tras la primera vuelta al mundo, resultaba fundamental acudir de nuevo a las islas de las Especias, y para ello se organizó una gran expedición. Su capitán general fue el comendador García Jofréde Loaysa, alguien poco conocido hasta el momento, aunque con un currículum brillante que ahora se rescata del olvido.Fruto de una larga y exhaustiva documentación, esta obra marca un antes y un después en el conocimiento sobre la expedición de Loaysa: un viaje épico cargado de dramatismo, seguido de una guerra desigual a la que con astucia, pundonor y corazón hubo quienes sobrevivieron, y volvieron para contarlo.Una historia de superación que convierte a sus protagonistas en acreedores de la gloria, y que nunca antes había sido narrada así, sorprendiéndonos nuevamente el autor con su habilidad para convertir la historia en una aventura apasionante.Este libro es imprescindible porque cubre desconocimientos, ata cabos y despierta curiosidades.A
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Editorial Renacimiento Marineros piratas y corsarios catalanes en la
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking the History of Empire
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond the Grand Tour
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Taylor & Francis Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinas Maritime Boundaries in the South China Sea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mirror of the World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thomas Harriot Science and Discovery in the English Renaissance
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Taylor & Francis Bangladeshs Maritime Policy
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Taylor & Francis Sylvester Syropoulos on Politics and Culture in the FifteenthCentury Mediterranean
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Taylor & Francis Portuguese Merchants in the Manila Galleon System 15651600 Routledge Studies in the Maritime History of Asia
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Taylor & Francis The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives
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Taylor & Francis Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
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Taylor & Francis The European World 15001800
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Taylor & Francis Early Modern Exchanges Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures 15501750 Transculturalisms 14001700
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Short History of the Worlds Shipping Industry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Short History of the Worlds Shipping Industry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power Cass Series Naval Policy and History
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Taylor & Francis Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Navies of Europe 18152002
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Taylor & Francis Hello Sailor
Book SynopsisWhen gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness. Trade Review"What this fascinating book is really about is not 'gay life at sea' in general, but the gay ghettos on many liners and cruiseships during the fifties and sixties."George Melly, The Mail on Sunday "...this path breaking book tells the hidden story of passion and liberation at sea. This is a vital addition to the understanding of gay and sea history."Publishing News "...candid confessions cause the narrative to leap into life."Independent on Sunday. "...a fascinating account."Gay Times "...Hello Sailor! transcends its niche as a piece of gay history and, instead, becomes something that has resonances for all readers, whether gay, straight or something in between."The Observer '...an eminently readable, often amusing and original book...'Journal of Contemporary History, Vol 41, No 1Table of Contentsintro1 Sailor Jack: the Other Side; Chapter 1 When Queer was Covert; Chapter 2 A Place of Freedom; Chapter 3 Speaking Gay Secrets; Chapter 4 Sea Wives and Meat Racks; Chapter 5 Sequins, Satin and Stilettos; Chapter 6 Ho Land! Ho Freedom!; Chapter 7 Part of a Team; Chapter 8 Swallowing the Anchor; Chapter 9 Taking Stock of Gay Heaven;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol Naval Staff Histories
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Naval History 15001680 The International Library of Essays on Military History
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Taylor & Francis Travel Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity Sacred and Profane
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe
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Taylor & Francis The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
Book SynopsisDiscussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where dwelled the warlike Celts, and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean, formidable obstacles to expansion westward. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America, and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached. The next sections deal with the English expansion in the western and northern British Isles. In the 12th century the Normans began the process of subjugating the Celts, thus inaugurating for the English an experience which was to prove crucial when colonizing the Americas in the 17th century. Medieval Ireland in particular served as a laboratory for the development of imperial institutions, attitudes, and ideologies that shapedTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. Part 1 The Viking Age: A note on the Norse occupation of Ireland, Jean I. Young; Vikings in the West Atlantic: a model of Norse Greenlandic medieval society, Christian Keller; The political policies of Cnut as king of England, Laurence M. Larson. Part 2 Creating an Empire Along the Atlantic Frontier: The beginnings of English imperialism, John Gillingham; 'Keeping the natives in order': the English king and the 'Celtic' rulers 1066-1216, Rees Davies; Overlordship and reaction, c.1200-c.1450, Robin Frame. Part 3 The Conquest of Britain: Lords and communities: political society in the 13th century, Michael Brown; Kings, lords and liberties in the March of Wales, 1066-1272, R.R. Davies; The Normans and the Welsh March, J.G. Edwards. Part 4 Expansion Overseas: The Coming of the English to Ireland: Strongbow, Henry II and Anglo-Norman intervention in Ireland, Marie Therese Flanagan; The Bull Laudabiliter, Kate Norgate; The character of Norman settlement in Ireland, Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven; Conquest and settlement: patterns of Anglo-Norman settlement in North Munster and South Leinster, C.A. Empey; Urbanisation in Ireland during the high Middle Ages, c.1100 to c.1350, Brian Graham. Part 5 Governing Medieval Ireland: The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland, Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven; 'Les Engleys nées en Irlande': the English political identity in medieval Ireland, Robin Frame; The Irish Remonstrance of 1317: an international perspective, J.R.S. Phillips; England against the Celtic fringe: a study in cultural stereotypes, W.R. Jones. Part 6 Sailing West from the British Isles at the End of the Middle Ages: The argument for the English discovery of America between 1480 and 1494, David B. Quinn; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Travellers Intellectuals and the World Beyond Medieval Europe The Expansion of Latin Europe 10001500
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art Science and Technology of Medieval Travel 6 AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology Science and Art
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