Maritime history books

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Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807

Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology...

Author: Jane Webster (Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology, Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780199214594
Format: Hardback
$307.00

Jane Webster develops a pioneering approach to 'rebuilding' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology...  Read More >>

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime...

Author: Professor Melissa Macauley
ISBN: 9780691214887
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally...  Read More >>

Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier

Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the...

Author: Stephen L. Moore
ISBN: 9780593472873
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"""A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier-and the sub's...  Read More >>

Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar Trade, 1783-1802

Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar...

Author: Peter Buckles
ISBN: 9781802078831
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Providing new levels of detail on Britain’s sugar trade, this authoritative account explores how Bristol’s sugar...  Read More >>

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia:...

Author: Professor Robert S.G. Fletcher (University of Missouri, USA) ,  Associate Professor Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350238930
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese...  Read More >>

Nautilus to Columbia: 70 years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines

Nautilus to Columbia: 70 years of the US Navy's Nuclear...

Author: James C. Goodall
ISBN: 9781472856500
Format: Hardback
$100.00

A highly illustrated history of the US Navy's nuclear submarine program, from the postwar years to the 2020 Columbia-class...  Read More >>

Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Greatest Ocean

Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Greatest Ocean...

Author: Gordon Miller
ISBN: 9781771623476
Format: Hardback
$89.99

"""Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they...  Read More >>

The Battle for the Sea

The Battle for the Sea

Author: Ishani
ISBN: 9788119747368
Format: Paperback
$58.08

The sea is a vast and precious resource, essential for life on Earth. It provides food, transportation, recreation,...  Read More >>

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the...

Author: Richard Snow
ISBN: 9781982185442
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known...  Read More >>

Maritime Exchange and the Making of Norman Worlds

Maritime Exchange and the Making of Norman Worlds

Author: Philippa Byrne ,  Caitlin Ellis
ISBN: 9782503602172
Format: Hardback
$248.16

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The Olympians: The story of Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic

The Olympians: The story of Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic...

Author: Joseph Edward Boro V
ISBN: 9798871908396
Format: Paperback
$18.45

"Not Just The Titanic: A Comprehensive Short History of the Olympic-Class Liners Have you ever wondered about the...  Read More >>

Unveiling EFL Learner Transformations: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Timeless Identities in Germany

Unveiling EFL Learner Transformations: A Mixed-Methods...

Author: Kaolin Leo
ISBN: 9798868918803
Format: Paperback
$92.37

"""Unveiling EFL Learner Transformations: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Timeless Identities in Germany"" embarks...  Read More >>

The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

The Evolution of the Passenger Ship

Author: Chris Frame ,  Rachelle Cross
ISBN: 9781803991559
Format: Paperback
$65.00

Exploring the rich history of modern-day cruising  Read More >>

Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy

Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy

Author: Thomas Weiss
ISBN: 9798853055285
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Untamed Waters: The Golden Age of Piracy is a captivating and thoroughly researched exploration of history's most...  Read More >>

A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies

A History of Ship Launches and Their Ceremonies

Author: George Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781399049450
Format: Hardback
$75.00

It is believed that this is the first comprehensive study to be written on the history of ship launches and their...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes: Concepts of the Sea and Marine Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium Bce

Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes: Concepts of the...

Author: Mari Yamasaki
ISBN: 9782503606477
Format: Paperback
$282.48

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Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer

Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern...

Author: Alexander Clarke
ISBN: 9781399077958
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Titanic: Minute by Minute

Titanic: Minute by Minute

Author: Jonathan Mayo
ISBN: 9781780726342
Format: Paperback
$26.99

This is the definitive chronology of the Titanic's final hours, told in fascinating detail and offering a real-time...  Read More >>

Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe

Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe...

Author: Sean McGrail
ISBN: 9781399019460
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In this book, Professor McGrail's study of European water transport  is extended to Egypt, Arabia, India, South-east...  Read More >>

Ireland, 1588: Wreck of the Spanish Armada

Ireland, 1588: Wreck of the Spanish Armada

Author: Michael Sheane
ISBN: 9780722353226
Format: Paperback
$26.37

In 1588, a fleet of Spanish ships carrying an army of soldiers sailed towards England. After meeting up with the...  Read More >>

The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke Canoe

The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty: Jazz and the Big Smoke...

Author: Arthur L Smith
ISBN: 9798988546603
Format: Paperback
$153.09

"In 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become...  Read More >>

Onassis Business History, 1924—1975

Onassis Business History, 1924—1975

Author: Gelina Harlaftis
ISBN: 9789004539884
Format: Hardback
$570.24

Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the twentieth century. This book, based on the newly-formed Onassis...  Read More >>

The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914

The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected...

Author: Boyd Cothran ,  Adrian Shubert
ISBN: 9781469676555
Format: Hardback
$59.40

It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel - in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in...  Read More >>

The Naval History of Wales: Unleashing Britannia's Dragon

The Naval History of Wales: Unleashing Britannia's Dragon...

Author: J.D. Davies
ISBN: 9781803994857
Format: Paperback
$42.99

A compelling and entertaining history of Welsh naval history  Read More >>

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