Maritime history books

This book examines the scale and scope of the largely forgotten role played for the Admiralty by 3000 armed fishing...  Read More >>

At the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, competing ideas about distributive justice and global...  Read More >>

The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre....  Read More >>

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The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power...  Read More >>

Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England....  Read More >>

A fascinating and, until now, unknown story of a ship and her captain. The recent discovery of her wreck and salvage...  Read More >>

Letters sent by a 19th century textile merchant to his mother during travels to South America between 1889 and 1895....  Read More >>

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume concentrate on examining case studies for the most important maritime core region...  Read More >>

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Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination...  Read More >>

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination...  Read More >>

The race to claim the farthest northern reaches of Canada and the ships that traversed icy waters to get there....  Read More >>

Stories of people who worked and lived on and by the Thames and its hidden tributaries flowing through London  Read More >>

This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows...  Read More >>

How do you start a church on board a seagoing ship? Is it possible for such a church to survive? How can the church...  Read More >>

"""First published in 2016 in Germany as Zwischen Hafen und Horizont."""  Read More >>

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern...  Read More >>

A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The book...  Read More >>

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern...  Read More >>

""First published in 2016 in Germany as Zwischen Hafen und Horizont.""  Read More >>

This two-volume set highlights the importance of Iberian shipbuilding in the centuries of the so-called first globalization...  Read More >>

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