Editor-in-Chief's Note / xiii
Contributors / xv
John Armstrong, “Some Aspects of the Business History of the British Coasting Trade” / 1
Yrjö Kaukiainen, “Journey Costs, Terminal Costs and Ocean Tramp Freights: How the Price of Distance Declined from the 1870s to 2000” / 17
R.V. Jackson, “Sickness and Health on Australia’s Female Convict Ships, 1821-1840” / 65
Richard W. Unger, “Shipping and Western European Economic Growth in the Late Renaissance: Potential Connections” / 85
Helen Thornton, “John Selden’s Response to Hugo Grotius: The Argument for Closed Seas” / 105
Niels van Manen, “Preventive Medicine in the Dutch Slave Trade, 1747-1797” / 129
Helen Doe, “The Business of Shipbuilding: Dunn and Henna of Mevagissey, 1799-1806” / 187
Ana I. Sinde Cantorna and Isabel Diéguez Castrillón, “Cooperation vs. Vertical Integration in Galicia’s Distant-water Fishing Industry, 1900-1950” / 219Chih-lung Lin, “British Aid to Japanese Shipping? Japanese Shipping Expansion and the Penetration into Liverpool during the First World War” / 237
Elizabeth Molt, “No Double-Dutch at Sea: How English Became
the Maritime Lingua Franca / 245
Susan A. Lebo, “Two Hawaiian Documents Shed New Light on the
Loss of Nineteen Native Hawaiian Seamen aboard the Hawaiian Whaling Barque
Desmond” / 257
Bjørn L. Basberg, “Introduction” / 283
Bjørn L. Basberg, “Perspectives on the Economic History of the Antarctic Region” / 285
Adam Wolfe, “Australian Whaling Ambitions and Antarctica” / 305
Sally R. May, “Australia’s Antarctic (Southern Ocean) Fisheries: A Case Study of the Development of Trans-national Capitalism” / 323
Bård Kolltveit, “‘Deckchair Explorers:’ The Origin and
Development of Organised Tourist Voyages to Northern and Southern Polar Regions”
/ 351
Robert Aldrich, Alastair Couper, Ben Finney, James G. Greenlee, Anne Perez Hattori, Jane Samson, George Bryan Souza and T. van Meijl, “Reviews of Paul D’Arcy, The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania” / 371
Paul D’Arcy, “The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania. A Roundtable Response” / 417
Ralph A. Austen, Anthony Beresford, Eric Gilbert, John Higginson (with Dr. Joye Bowman), Joseph Inikori, Graeme Milne and James Reveley, “Reviews of Ayodeji Olukoju, The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: The Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900‑1950” / 429
Ayodeji Olukoju, “The ‘Liverpool’ of West Africa: The
Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900‑1950. A
Roundtable Response” / 473
Frauke Lätsch, Insularität und Gesellschaft in der Antike: Untersuchungen zur Auswirkung der Insellage auf die Gesellschaftsentwicklung by R. Scott Moore / 479
Brian Fagan, Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World by Andrew Rolfson / 480
Ben Hudson, Irish Sea Studies, 900-1200 by Robin McGregor Ward / 482
Paul Jordan, North Sea Saga by Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen / 484
Morten Hahn-Pedersen (ed.), Sjæk’len 2005: Årbog for Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Saltvandsakvariet i Esbjerg by Tommy P. Christensen / 485
Edward L. Dreyer, Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Wang Gungwu / 486
İdris Bostan, Beylikten İmparatorluğa Osmanlı Denizciliği by Colin Heywood / 488
Erik Gøbel (ed.), Jens Mortensen Sveigaards ostindiske rejsebeskrivelse 1665-1684 by Martin Krieger / 490
Martine Julia van Ittersum, Profit and Principle: Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595-1615 by Douglas B. Palmer / 491
John Keay, The Spice Route by Irene B. Jacobs / 493
Sugata Bose, A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Michael Pearson / 494
Paul A. Van Dyke, The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845 by Kent G. Deng / 496
Sherryllynne Haggerty, The British-Atlantic Trading Community, 1760-1810: Men, Women, and the Distribution of Goods by Allan Dwyer / 498
B.W. Higman, Plantation Jamaica 1750-1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Society by S.D. Smith / 500
Eric Paul Roorda, Cuba, America and the Sea: The Story of the Immigrant Boat Analuisa and 500 Years of History Between Cuba and America by Kenneth J. Blume / 501
Thomas Allison Kirk, Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684 by Michela D’Angelo / 503
Maria Stella Rollandi, Lavorare sul mare: Economia e organizzazione del lavoro marittimo fra Otto e Novecento by Salvatore Bottari / 505
Maria Stella Rollandi, Istruzione e sviluppo nella Liguria marittima (1815-1921) by Maria Sirago / 506
E. Kay Gibson, Brutality on Trial: “Hellfire” Pedersen, “Fighting” Hansen, and the Seamen’s Act of 1915 by Lewis R. Fischer / 507
Martin J. Hollenberg, Marco Polo: The Story of the Fastest Clipper by Eric J. Ruff / 508
Friedrich Ludwig Middendorf, Bemastung und Takelung der Schiffe by Lars Bruzelius / 510
William H. Thiesen, Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920 by Jeffrey J. Saffford / 511
Daniel Sekulich, Ocean Titans: Journeys in Search of the Soul of a Ship by Lewis Johnman / 513
Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger and Arthur Donovan and Joseph Bonney, The Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping – An Illustrated History by Hugo van Driel / 515
Brian Cudahy, Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World by Hugh Murphy / 517
Jack Devanney, The Tankship Tromedy, The Impending Disasters in Tankers by Stig Tenold / 518
John Graves, Waterline: Images from the Golden Age of Cruising by Lorraine Coons / 519
Nico Guns, Kungsholm – Europa – Columbus C: Een internationaal schip by Michael Miller / 521
Ross A. Klein, Cruise Ship Squeeze: The New Pirates of the Seven Seas and Kristoffer A. Garin, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns that Built America’s Cruise Ship Empires by Robert G. Greenhill / 522
Charles R. Clark, Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship “Cospatrick” by Rachel Mulhearn / 524
Peter Plowman, Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977 by Nathan Richards / 526
Robert A. Wilson, RMS St. Helena and the Atlantic Islands by Alan G. Jamieson / 527
Alex F. Lechich, A Storm in the Port: Keeping the Port of New York and New Jersey Open by Christopher Wooldridge / 528
Miguel Suárez Bosa, Llave de la fortuna. Instituciones y organización del trabajo en el Puerto de Las Palmas, 1883-1990 by Jesús Mirás-Araujo / 529
Lucia Del Sol Knight and Daniel Bruce MacNaughton (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers by David A. Walker / 531
Anne Ala-Pöllänen, Tytti Steel and Johanna Aartomaa (eds.), Suomalaisia veneitä. Nautica Fennica 2005-2006 by John Hackman / 532
Annalies Corbin, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West by Peter S. Morris / 533
Ian B. Hart, Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931: A History of Shore and Bay-based Whaling in the Antarctic by Robb Robinson / 535
Arne Kalland and Frank Sejersen, with contributions by Harald Beyer Broch and Mats Ris, Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures by Barbara Bodenhorn / 537
Michael Heazle, Scientific Uncertainty and the Politics of Whaling by Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne / 538
Matthew D. Evenden, Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River by Lissa Kay Wadewitz / 540
David J. Starkey and James E. Candow (eds.), The North Atlantic Fisheries: Supply, Marketing and Consumption, 1560-1990 by James R. Coull / 542
Carol Lynn McKibben, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 by Peter R. Sinclair / 543
Louis B. Sohn and John E. Noyes, Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea by Ted McDorman / 544
Montserrat Gorina-Ysern, An International Regime for Marine Scientific Research by David L. VanderZwaag / 546
John Charles Kunich, Killing Our Oceans: Dealing with the Mass Extinction of Marine Life by Murray A. Rudd / 548
Fikret Berkes, Rob Huebert, Helen Fast, Micheline Manseau and Alan Diduk (eds.), Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North (with DVD, Watching, Listening and Understanding Changes in the Environment) by Scott Coffen-Smout / 550
Heather McKillop, In Search of Maya Sea Traders by Richard T. Callaghan / 552
James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner, From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle by R. James Ringer / 553
Luis Filipe Vieira de Castro, The Pepper Wreck: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River by Thomas J. Oertling / 555
Russell Skowronek and Charles Ewen (eds.), X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy by Jerome Lynn Hall / 557
Duane W. Roller, Through the Pillars of Herakles: Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic by Philip de Souza / 559
Koenraad van Cleempoel, with contributions by Silke Ackermann, François Charette, Elly Dekker, Paul Kunitzsch, Richard Lorch, David Proctor and A.J. Turner, Astrolabes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum by Albrecht Sauer / 560
Michael Rand Hoare, The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth by Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns / 561
Robert McGhee, The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World by Anne Morton / 563
Evan McHugh, 1606: An Epic Adventure by Raymond John Howgego / 564
Byron Heath, Discovering the Great South Land by Paul D. Buell / 566
Peter Jimack (ed.), A History of the Two Indies: A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal’s “Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements des Européens dans les Deux Indes” by Bruce Lenman / 567
Harry Liebersohn, The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacific by Paul D’Arcy / 568
Patty O’Brien, The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific by Jane Samson / 570
Jane Samson (ed.), British Imperial Strategies in the Pacific, 1750-1900 by Roy Schreiber / 571
David Parsons, The David Parsons Collection Rare Pacific Voyage Books. Part I: Dampier to Cook and David Parsons, The David Parsons Collection Rare Pacific Voyage Books. Part II: La Pérouse to Wilkes by John Robson / 573
Miriam Estensen, The Life of George Bass: Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment by Henry J. Steward / 574
Philip Fennell and Marie King (eds.), John Devoy’s Catalpa Expedition by Rainer Baehre / 576
Jason Crummey, Pirates of Newfoundland by Keith Mercer / 578
Jean-Pierre Moreau, Pirates: flibuste et piraterie dans la Caraïbe et les mers du sud by Richard Pennell / 579
Joke E. Kortewegs, Kaperbloed en koopmansgeest. “Legale zeeroverij” door de eeuwen heen’ by Victor Enthoven / 580
David Trim and Mark Charles Fissel (eds.), Amphibious Warfare 1000‑1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion by N.A.M. Rodger / 582
Jan Glete (ed.), Naval History 1500-1680 by Louis Sicking / 583
Marc A. van Alphen and Anita M.C. van Dissel (eds.), Chronicle of the Royal Netherlands Navy: Five Hundred Years of Dutch Maritime History by Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek / 585
David Syrett, Admiral Lord Howe: A Biography by Edward M. Furgol / 586
Joseph F. Callo, John Paul Jones: America’s First Sea Warrior by Spencer C. Tucker / 588
Roy Adkins, Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle that Changed the World by Cheryl Fury / 589
Kevin D. McCranie, Admiral Lord Keith and the Naval War against Napoleon by Paul Webb / 591
Laurence Brockliss, John Cardwell and Michael Moss, Nelson’s Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar by Jane Bowden-Dan / 592
James Lowry; John Millyard (ed.), Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson’s Fleet by Janet Macdonald / 594
Robert Malcomson (ed.), Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 by Christine F. Hughes / 595
John H. Schroeder, Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy by Michael J. Crawford / 596
Barry Gough, Through Water, Ice and Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 by W.A.B. Douglas / 598
Frederick C. Leiner, The End of Barbary Terror: America’s 1815 War against the Pirates in North Africa by Christopher McKee / 599
Andrew C.A. Jampoler, Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah by R. Blake Dunnavent / 601
Harold Holzer and Tim Mulligan (eds.), The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia by William H. Roberts / 602
Angus Curry, The Officers of the CSS Shenandoah by B.R. Burg / 603
Arthur Bleby, The Victorian Naval Brigades by Michael Partridge / 605
J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 by Andrew Lambert / 606
Matthew S. Seligmann, Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War by Nicholas A. Lambert / 607
Thomas C. Hone and Trent Hone, Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919-1939 by Dean C. Allard / 609
Gunnar Åselius, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 1921-1941 by Michael Epkenhans / 611
Jürgen Rohwer, with assistance from Gerhard Hümmelchen and Thomas Weis, Chronology of the War At Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two by Michael L. Hadley / 613
Keith Bird, Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich by Axel Niestlé / 614
Brian James Crabb, Beyond the Call of Duty: The Loss of British Commonwealth Mercantile and Service Women at Sea during the Second World War by Jo Stanley / 615
H.P. Willmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action by Mark P. Parillo / 617
Milan N. Vego, The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution by Kenneth P. Hansen / 619
Sam Nilsson, Stalin’s Baltic Fleet and Palm’s T-Office: Two Sides in the Emerging Cold War 1946-1947 by Martin J. Bollinger / 620
Shawn Cafferky, Uncharted Waters: A History of the Canadian Helicopter Carrying Destroyer by Doug McLean / 621
David Stevens, A Critical Vulnerability: The Impact of the Submarine Threat on Australia’s Maritime Defence 1915-1954 by Peter Haydon / 623
Peter C. Avis, Comparing National Approaches to Maritime
Security in the Post 9/11 Era by Eric Grove / 625
Updated: March 8, 2007