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This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .

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Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries.

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A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants shifts attention to the Mediterranean, providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of the early modern maritime world,

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This book provides readers with a long-term analysis of Chinese maritime activities and their economic consequences in industries, infrastructure, trade, migration, and government policies. It shows insight into the causes for sterility of capitalist industrialization in premodern China.

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Columbus undertook three voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. This book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.

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This engaging history helps to separate fact from fiction while exploring the reasons the sea and sea life have held such prominent roles in popular fiction, and will help students understand what life was truly like for these people.

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This work takes a revisionist approach to US and British naval practice and war planning in the Far East during the pre-war period. Using archival evidence, it reveals information about the state of war planning in both navies which challenges the conclusions of Marder and Roskill.

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This work takes a revisionist approach to US and British naval practice and war planning in the Far East during the pre-war period. Using archival evidence, it reveals information about the state of war planning in both navies which challenges the conclusions of Marder and Roskill.

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In 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that Europeans hoped would speed the time of travel to East Asia. But Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage did not go well. This book tells the full story of Hudson and the other 23 men who set sail from London in April 1610.

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From Odysseus - the original pirate of literature and lore - to Blackbeard and the feared pirates of the Spanish Main, this book reveals the strategies and methods of how pirates cheat, lie, kill, steal, and rob their way into the historical imagination, wreaking terror in their bloody wakes.

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Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history. -- .

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Imperial steam explores the early history of a steamship route which was at the heart of the functioning of the British Empire. More so than the practical changes wrought by steam, the book argues that the modernity associated with the steamship provided a powerful imaginative frame of reference for narrating Britains place in its imperial world.

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An alternative history of Australia written in a lively and accessible style and exploring the crucial role of the sea in shaping our national identity.

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A fascinating account of a two-year voyage of discovery by Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux in search of the Comte de La Perouse in the South Pacific. The mission failed to find him and many of its men died from illness, destined to sail for two years without a single word of the extraordinary events unfolding back in revolutionary

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Challenges the stereotype of premodern China as an agricultural nation by exploring China's largely ignored maritime institutions.

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"Examines how storytelling and rumour among the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic world, using a case study from the Danish Empire."--Provided by publisher.

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The story of the mutiny on board HMS "Bounty" has been mythologised by centuries of adventure novels and Hollywood films, but this edition goes back to the fascinating accounts that reveal the true story behind the legend.