An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
Through a microscopical lens, the book delves into the lives of some of the migrants linked to the Agata, either as members of the crew a ship, after all, is a moving workplace, as passengers, or as people sending letters through the ship....Loe edasi...
2025 Readers Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner 2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist A breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198999058)
This monograph challenges popular and critical orthodoxies about twentieth and twenty-first century literature and visual culture. It unearths a buried alternative history of the novel of the English-speaking world by demonstrating how stalled and in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780861592388)
In 1994, the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck were discovered by divers off Salcombe Bay. The finds consisted of 400 gold coins of the Sa’dian sharifs of Morocco in addition to ingots, jewellery as well as other items including Dutch pewter and po...Loe edasi...
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, Germano Maifreda
Sari: Toronto Italian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549879)
Cultures of Exchange examines the mercantile culture of the Italian peninsula, whose wealth and geographic location made it a focal point of cultural exchange in the Mediterranean. The volume explores the integration of the peninsula into...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197777688)
An engaging history of a three year voyage that set off to find the Northwest Passage but instead returned to Europe with extraordinary findings about species, Indigenous-produced knowledge of the Pacific world, and the people and nature of the Pacif...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the figure of the pirate as a literary phenomenon in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Piracy Mythmaking emphasizes and illustrates the wide range of viewpoints found in pirate literature, from militant nationalism to sati...Loe edasi...
Packed with illustrations, this is the first history of MarinegruppenkommandoSüd, Germanys southern naval command that fought a fast and furious war at the far end of the Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual featuring original research on the history, development and service of the worlds warships.For nearly 50 years, Warship has been providing scholars and enthusiasts wi...Loe edasi...
Pirates and Privateers of the Atlantic and the Caribbean is the most recent and broadest study of international privateering in the 18th and 19th centuries. It first examines ships themselves, which were privately financed and privately o...Loe edasi...
Third volume of the critically-acclaimed series stressing maritime trade as the driver of world history, wealth-creation, technologiical inventiveness, art and literature. This book tackles the Maritime Enlightenment, which spurred economic liberali...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052271)
Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanics history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, and White Star Line chairman Joseph Bruce Ismay...Loe edasi...
Sarah Palmers authoritative work is the first to treat the history of London and its port as one subject. She brings together a range of material rarely considered together to demonstrate both the economic importance of international and domestic s...Loe edasi...
An illustrated history of the torpedo boats of Italys fast coastal forces, from their raids on enemy battleships in World War I to the dashing campaigns of World War II. An illustrated history of the motor torpedo boats of Italy...Loe edasi...
The first overview of merchant seafarer training and education in a single volume, outlining the development of training and education from the earliest time to the present....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008736781)
Dominic Gregory hasnt just delivered a survey of courage and determination Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed Tim Winton Do you really think all lives are w...Loe edasi...
An illustrated study of Japans Nagato-class battleships: the IJNs powerful super-dreadnoughts, which were heavily modernized to fight in World War II. An illustrated study of Japans Nagato-class battleships: the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051120)
A new study, for first time revealing the story of Greenvile Collins, hugely significant historical character, cartographer to the King, and author of Great Britains Coasting Pilot, the foundation stone of British hydrography...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009553322)
Uncovering the intertwined histories of the Nicaragua Canal and the Mosquito Coast, this book will appeal to readers interested in empire, race, and the global nineteenth century. It offers fresh insights for scholars of imperial history, transatlan...Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
Through a microscopical lens, the book delves into the lives of some of the migrants linked to the Agata, either as members of the crew a ship, after all, is a moving workplace, as passengers, or as people sending letters through the ship....Loe edasi...
2025 Readers Favorite Book Awards Gold Medal-winner 2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award Finalist A breakneck adventure of war, romance, and politics in the golden age of piracy....Loe edasi...
This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and unputdownable. – HORATIO CLARELike Sir Francis Drake and Lord Horatio Nelson in Kevin Jackson’s acclaimed maritime history series, Captain James Cook was also born of h...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186053)
Within the global Spanish empire of the early modern era, the signifier portugués carried an expansive variety of associations. It could mean, depending on the observer, being either Spanish or foreign, Catholic or Jewish, useful or deleterious, loy...Loe edasi...
During the American Civil War the term Brown Water Navy was coined to distinguish naval riverine and coastal duties from the activities of the Blue Water, or ocean-going fleet. A Brown Water Navy faced a much different set of challenges then the oce...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051731)
The unbelievable true story of a boy who went to sea at 13, became a war hero in both world wars, and survived four shipwrecks, including Titanic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198999058)
This monograph challenges popular and critical orthodoxies about twentieth and twenty-first century literature and visual culture. It unearths a buried alternative history of the novel of the English-speaking world by demonstrating how stalled and in...Loe edasi...
An astonishing true storyone of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth centurytold by our eras expert literary steersman (The Washington Post)...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780861592388)
In 1994, the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck were discovered by divers off Salcombe Bay. The finds consisted of 400 gold coins of the Sa’dian sharifs of Morocco in addition to ingots, jewellery as well as other items including Dutch pewter and po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781835539880)
This book explores the idea of the ocean liner in the literary imagination, asking how it transformed from an industrial machine into a potent symbol, and how it became a focus for dreams and terrors....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781805966005)
Catholicism and Elizabethan Seafaring is the first study to focus on Elizabethan Catholic seafarers who participated in the Anglo-Spanish conflicts. The study traces shifts in religious culture aboard English ships in the 16th century and highlights...Loe edasi...
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, Germano Maifreda
Sari: Toronto Italian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487549879)
Cultures of Exchange examines the mercantile culture of the Italian peninsula, whose wealth and geographic location made it a focal point of cultural exchange in the Mediterranean. The volume explores the integration of the peninsula into...Loe edasi...
