Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradleys skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches wa...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red, discover the incredible true story and page-turning account of the 18th century slave ship that sparked the human rights campaign to end the slave trade. Perfect for fans of David Granns The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250348227)
From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movementIn late October 1780, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Four Courts Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781846828683)
During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of Irish men and woman were transported as convicts to Britain&;s penal colonies in Australia. Few, however, possessed back stories as intriguing as that of the Belfast-man John Linn...Loe edasi...
The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500. For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845661)
A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka. How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-ninetee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855803761)
Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ships dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory. In 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis undertook...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855803754)
Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ships dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197780756)
An immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecksThe sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civiliza...Loe edasi...
According to conventional naval history, the Coastal Motor Boat was the brainchild of three enterprising young Royal Navy officers in the early stages of the First World War. This new book reveals that the truth was far more complex, and historicall...Loe edasi...
This book is a companion to the same authors highly regarded Russian and Soviet Battleships, originally published in 2003 and reissued recently. However, it is a far larger undertaking for the obvious reason that there are so many more cruisers than...Loe edasi...
The Imperial Japanese Navy was an early proponent of naval air power and commissioned the worlds first purpose-designed aircraft carrier, the Hosho, in 1922. There followed a series of one-off designs of widely different sizes, some converted from c...Loe edasi...
French carrier aviation traces its origins to the Foudre, a highly original ship initially designed to carry torpedo boats into action but later converted into a seaplane carrier. During the First World War this was supplemented by a number of merch...Loe edasi...
The failure experienced at Gallipoli has become a byword for the misapplication of amphibious operations. In truth, the British experience of joint amphibious operations during the World War was always more than Gallipoli. If success elsewhere seemed...Loe edasi...
This book examines in detail for the first time the screen legacy of the great Irish-born Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922). It encompasses the pioneering expedition films he made from 1909 to 1922 and the documentary and dra...Loe edasi...
Sari: Legal History Library / Studies in the History of International Law
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004741393)
The tension between freedom and sovereign claims continues to characterise the evolution of the law of the sea. In September 2018, the American guided missile destroyer USS Decatur and a Chinese warship almost collided in the South China Sea, gettin...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a long-durée overview over Chinas politics and commerce including explanations for specific changes, covers a wide range of aspects related to maritime trade in the region and highlights many aspects of Sino-European (Sino-forei...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463724043)
Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas engages with one of the most important and formative periods of pirate history, identifies piracy as a major aspect of early modern economy, politics, and culture, and embodie...Loe edasi...
