(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 i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781916931213)
A revealing documentary account of how Britain struggled to shape a modern navy amid Cold War pressures, rapid technological change and relentless financial constraint....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...
The Massim region of Papua New Guinea has been the focus of ethnographic interest for over a century because of sociocultural practices and maritime economies that connect island populations, including the Kula ring. This Element explores the histor...Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009529563)
The Massim region of Papua New Guinea has been the focus of ethnographic interest for over a century because of sociocultural practices and maritime economies that connect island populations, including the Kula ring. This Element explores the histor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198910152)
Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean explores how the small medieval kingdom of Denia in Spain became a powerful maritime state after the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate. Its rul...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...
In the early eighteenth century, the Indian Ocean was a dynamic crossroads of commerce, politics, and shifting power. European trading companies, Indigenous rulers and polities, and long-established merchant networks all competed and collaborated acr...Loe edasi...
A biography of the East India Company career of Sir Robert Cowan. In the early eighteenth century, the Indian Ocean was a dynamic crossroads of commerce, politics, and shifting power. European trading companies, Indigenous rulers and polities...Loe edasi...
As the Second World War raged in the Baltics, thousands of escape boats set course for Sweden. On board were not only refugees, but also suitcases and trunks packed with the things they could not bear to leave behind. And so photo albums, silver cut...Loe edasi...
Gunboats and Empires reveals how Thomas Jefferson’s naval strategy—favoring small, fast gunboats over a traditional ocean-going fleet—was influenced by Enlightenment ideals and a selective interpretation of European military history. In the years bef...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive history of commercial fishing and fishing settlements along Minnesota’s North Shore shares new conclusions regarding the fishery from 1650 to the present day.North of Duluth, off of Highway 61, picturesque old...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, 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...
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...
Ewen Southby-Tailyours lifetime involvement with small boats, both civilian and military, began with his unusual christening and lasted until he sold his final vessel on his 80th Birthday. In between these two landmarks he sailed extensively but no...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...
The battlecruiser is perceived by many as the most glamorous of warships, remembered for its triumphs and tragedies in both world wars. Often forgotten are its lineal ancestors, the big cruisers that were constructed as capital ships for distant wat...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-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...
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...
Sari: Excavations in the Portus Magnum of Alexandria
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, ISBN-13: 9781905905515)
The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property of kings (Geography 17.1.9). It was here in the third century BC that the Ptolemies built a palace and on a monumental quayside reac...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...
This book sets out the huge legacy of proud maritime tradition from the port of Edinburgh known as Leith. Steam Yachts were some of the finest vessels ever to sail the oceans - a floating palace of understated elegance and favoured by the likes of T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9780859767439)
Lighthouses are enduring symbols of resilience, hope and safety. The human stories of the keepers’ lives, and the scale of the human effort that went into lighthouse keeping before automation, are fascinating.This book tells the stories of th...Loe edasi...
This book features all ships and boats under display and open to the public at National Park sites including their history, significance, and current location. This volume includes famous ships such as the USS Constitution, USS Arizona, and USS Cairo...Loe edasi...
It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage.By all accounts, the liner was at the time the largest man-made objec...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...
