Editor-in-Chief's Note / xiii
Contributors / xv
G. Balachandran, “Sovereignty, Subjectivities, Narrations: Nations and Other Stories from the Sea” / 1
Adrian Jarvis, “‘Due Legal Process:’ A Hidden Cost in the Building and Operation of the Port of Liverpool” / 21
Yrjö Kaukiainen, “The Container Revolution and Liner Freights” / 43
Iván Valdez-Bubnov, “War, Trade and Technology: The Politics of Spanish Shipbuilding Legislation, 1607-1728” / 75
Gérard Le Bouëdec, “Small Ports from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Century and the Local Economy of the French Atlantic Coast” / 103
Mike Macdonald, “Australian Coastal Shipping and the Price of Ships, 1919-1930” / 127
Janet Macdonald, “A New Myth of Naval History? Confusing Magnitude with Significance in British Naval Victualling Purchases, 1750-1815” / 159
Marta García Garralón, “The Education of Pilots for the
Indies Trade in Spain during the Eighteenth Century” / 189
Eivind Merok and Espen Ekberg, “Norwegian Shipping in the Port of Liverpool, 1855-1895: Niche Specialization and Anglo-Norwegian Networks” / 221
James Davey,
“Within Hostile Shores: Victualling the Royal Navy in European Waters during the
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars” / 241
Willem F.J.
Mörzer Bruyns, “Research in the History of Navigation: Its Role in Maritime
History” / 261
Dale Sauter, “Made Mechanically Correct: An Introduction to the Marietta
Manufacturing Company Records, Point Pleasant, WV, 1906-2006” / 287
Tim Bowly; Hanno Brand; Edda Frankot; Benjamin Hudson; Stuart Jenks; Brad Loewen; Lawrence V. Mott; Frank L. Wiswall, Jr., “Reviews of Robin Ward, The World of the Medieval Shipmaster: Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-1450” / 301
Robin Ward, “The
World of the Medieval Shipmaster: Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-1450. A
Roundtable Response” / 344
Lars Scholl (gen. ed.); Erik Hoops, Ursula Feldkamp (eds.), Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 30 (2007): Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums by Michael Hadley / 349
Alastair Couper, Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples by Lance Nolde / 350
Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), The East Asian “Mediterranean”: Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration by Craig A. Lockard / 352
François Gipouloux, La Méditerranée asiatique: Villes portuaires et réseaux marchands en Chine, au Japon et an Asie du Sud-Est XVe-XXe siècle by Paul D. Buell / 354
Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West by Paul A. Van Dyke / 355
Mathieu Torck, Avoiding the Dire Straits: An Inquiry into Food Provisions and Scurvy in the Maritime and Military History of China and Wider East Asia by Kent G. Deng / 357
Shannon Lewis-Simpson (ed.), Vinland Revisited: The Norse World at the Turn of the First Millennium. Selected Papers from the Viking Millennium International Symposium, Sept. 15-24, 2000, Newfoundland and Labrador by Jan Bill / 358
Hanno Brand and Egge Knol (eds.), Koggen, Kooplieden en Kantoren: De Hanze, een Praktisch Netwerk by Herman Van der Wee / 360
Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White (eds.); Linda L. Carroll (trans.), Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo by Maria Fusaro / 361
Toyin Falola and Kevin D. Roberts (eds.), The Atlantic World, 1450-2000 by Michael F. Dove / 363
Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan (eds.), Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800 by Noah L. Gelfand / 364
Bruce Wathen, Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero by John C. Appleby / 366
James A. Lewis, The Spanish Convoy of 1750: Heaven’s Hammer and International Diplomacy by Jeffrey A. Fortin / 368
Thomas M. Truxes, Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York by Christopher P. Magra / 369
Sean T. Cadigan, Newfoundland and Labrador: A History by James E. Candow / 371
Joshua M. Smith and the National Maritime History Society (ed.), Voyages, The Age of Sail: Documents on American Maritime History, Volume I: 1492-1865 and Voyages, The Age of Engines: Documents in American Maritime History, Volume II: 1865-Present by James Klein / 373
Evabeth Miller Kienast and John Phillip Felt (eds.), Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the ‘Amethyst,’ 1806-1811 by Paul E. Fontenoy / 374
Lewis R. Fischer and Even Lange (eds.), International Merchant Shipping in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Comparative Dimension by Robert G. Greenhill / 376
Peter N. Davies, The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes: Aspects of the Evolution of Commerce in Modern Japan, 1861-1910 by Robert Hellyer / 377
Martin Barraclough, Looking for the Silver Lining: A British Family’s Shipowning Century, 1875-1975 by Alan G. Jamieson / 379
René Taudal Poulsen, I Nellebladets kølvand... Historien om Weilbach og Det blå Danmark by Stig Tenold / 380
Richard Woodman, A History of the British Merchant Navy, Vol. 1. Neptune’s Trident: Spices and Slaves 1500-1807 by Stephen J.J. Pitt / 382
Alfie Windsor, HMS Conway, 1859-1974 by Tony Lane / 383
Ray Solly, Mariner’s Voyage by Alston Kennerley / 386
Stephen Richardson, School of the Sea 1937-1946 by Morgiana P. Halley / 387
Kate Lance, Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds and Alan Villiers, Square-Rigged Ships: An Introduction by Mark Howard / 388
William H. Bunting, Live Yankees: The Sewalls and Their Ships by Eric J. Ruff / 390
Peter Plowman, Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman Liners by Sally May / 392
John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France’s Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner by Lorraine Coons / 393
Claire Puccia Parham, The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth by Brian S. Osborne / 395
Tom Sheridan, Australia’s Own Cold War: The Waterfront Under Menzies by Neil White / 397
Peter Hendee Brown, America’s Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment by Anthony K.C. Beresford / 398
Patrick O’Flanagan, Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500-1900 by Carlos Martínez-Shaw / 400
William D. Wilkinson and Timothy R. Dring, American Coastal Rescue Craft: A Design History of Coastal Rescue Craft Used by the United States Life-Saving Service and the United States Coast Guard by Frederick Stonehouse / 401
Adrian Jarvis and Robert Lee (eds.), Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in Port Cities, c.1640-1940 by Isaac Land / 403
Alexander X. Byrd, Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World by David Richardson / 404
Raymond L. Cohn, Mass Migration Under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States by Farley Grubb / 406
Laura Jarnagin, A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil by David McCreery / 408
Graeme Henderson, Redemption of a Slave Ship: The James Matthews by Michael Tuttle / 409
Peter T. Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Mark G. Hanna / 411
The Islands Book Trust, Whaling and the Hebrides: The History of Island Whalers in the South Atlantic and Whaling In and Around the Hebrides by Bjørn L. Basberg / 412
C. Ian Jackson (ed.), The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger. Volume II: The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 by Louwrens Hacquebord / 413
Charlotte Epstein, The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse by Brian J. Payne / 415
Roehlano M. Briones and Arnulfo G. Garcia (eds.), Poverty Reduction Through Sustainable Fisheries: Emerging Policy and Governance Issues in Southeast Asia by Murray A. Rudd / 416
Stan Ulanski, The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic by Trevor Kenchington / 417
James C. Cato (ed.), Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 2, Ocean and Coastal Economy by Juan Carlos Seijo / 419
Russel K. Skowronek and George R. Fischer, HMS Fowey Lost and Found: Being the Discovery, Excavation, and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape of Florida in 1748 by Gregory D. Cook / 421
Nicholas Tracy, The Miracle of the Kent: A Tale of Courage, Faith, and Fire by Edward M. Furgol / 422
Nathan Richards, Ships’ Graveyards: Abandoned Watercraft and the Archaeological Site Formation Process by Jeremy Green / 423
James Delgado, Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront by Nathan Richards / 424
Ab Hoving (ed.), Het Statenjacht Utrecht by Brad Loewen / 425
Jenny Gaschke (ed.), Turmoil and Tranquillity: the Sea Through the Eyes of Dutch and Flemish Masters, 1550-1700 by Gerard Curtis / 427
Robin Inglis (ed.), Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America by Victor Suthren / 428
Stephen R. Bown, Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver by Christon I. Archer / 430
Philippe Godard and Tugdual de Kerros; Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury and Sue Baxter (trans.), 1772: The French Annexation of New Holland. The Tale of Louis de Saint Aloüarn by Roy Schreiber / 431
James Taylor, The Voyage of the Beagle: Darwin’s Extraordinary Adventure aboard Fitzroy’s Famous Survey Ship and Iain McCalman, Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Andrew Lambert / 433
Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Exploration by Anne Morton / 436
Dennis L. Noble and Truman R. Strobridge, Captain ‘Hell Roaring’ Mike Healy: From African Slave to Arctic Hero by William R. Morrison / 437
Raymond John Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration. Vol. IV: 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration by Lincoln Paine / 438
Richard Stachurski, Finding North America: Longitude by Wire by Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns / 440
Sharon A. Babaian, Setting Course: A History of Marine Navigation in Canada by David H. Gray / 441
Susan Rose (ed.), The Naval Miscellany, Volume VII by John B. Hattendorf / 443
Maochun Yu (ed.), New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Naval History Symposium by Christopher M. Bell / 444
A.M. Bowie (ed.), Herodotus: Histories, Book VIII by Anthony J. Papalas / 445
Michael Pitassi, The Navies of Rome by Fred K. Drogula / 447
İdrіs Bostan (ed.), A Jewel of Ottoman Naval History: The Book of Kâtib Çelebi on Naval Campaigns by Ruthy Gertwagen / 448
Tuncay Zorlu, Innovation and Empire in Turkey: Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation of the Ottoman Navy by Colin Heywood / 449
J.D. Davies, Pepys’s Navy: The Ships, Men and Organisation 1649-1689 by Ian K. Steele / 451
Jonathan R. Dull, The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Roger Morriss / 453
David Syrett, Shipping and Military Power in the Seven Years War: The Sails of Victory by Richard Harding / 454
Colin Pengelly, Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake by Paul Webb / 455
Louis Arthur Norton, Captains Contentious: The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine by William M. Fowler / 457
Christopher P. Magra, The Fisherman’s Cause: Atlantic Commerce and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution by Keith Mercer / 458
Brendan Simms, Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire by Jonathan R. Dull / 460
Nicholas Tracy, Who’s Who in Nelson’s Navy: 200 Naval Heroes by John A. Tilley / 461
Bryan Elson, Nelson’s Yankee Captain: The Life of Boston Loyalist Sir Benjamin Hallowell by Julian Gwyn / 462
Donald G. Shomette, Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812 by Tyrone G. Martin / 464
H. George Hahn, The Ocean Bards: British Poetry and the War at Sea, 1793-1815 by N.A.M. Rodger / 465
Philip MacDougall (ed.), Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation by Adrian Jarvis / 466
Ari Hoogenboom, Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography by Christopher McKee / 467
Stephen R. Taaffe, Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership during the Civil War by B.R. Burg / 469
Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals by Kenneth J. Blume / 470
Gary McKay, The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell by Spencer C. Tucker / 472
Tom Chaffin, The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy by John Townley / 473
Glen N. Wiche (ed.), Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1888 by Howard J. Fuller / 474
Jim Leeke, Manila & Santiago: The New Steel Navy in the Spanish-American War by James R. Reckner / 476
Michael Epkenhans, Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet by Terrell D. Gottschall / 477
Nicholas Black, The British Naval Staff in the First World War by Jon Tetsuro Sumida / 478
William Reynolds Braisted; epilogue by James C. Bradford, Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922-1933 by Malcolm H. Murfett / 480
Milan Vego, Operational Warfare at Sea: Theory and Practice by Jonathan E. Czarnecki / 482
Malcolm Murfett, Naval Warfare 1919-1945: An Operational History of the Volatile War at Sea by Nicholas Tracy / 483
Reinhard H. Huxmann, Die »Karriere« des Kreuzers Königsberg Nach Seinem Untergang: Bilddokumentation einer Bergung by Michael Epkenhans / 484
John T. Kuehn, Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy by Chris Madsen / 485
Joel Ira Holwitt, “Execute Against Japan”: The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare by Doug McLean / 487
William D. Naftel, Halifax at War: Searchlights, Squadrons and Submarines 1939-1945 by Roger Sarty / 488
Michael Kennedy, Guarding Neutral Ireland: the Coast Watching Service, Military Intelligence and Ireland’s Second World War by C.I. Hamilton / 490
Ian Pfennigwerth, Missing Pieces: The Intelligence Jigsaw and RAN Operations from 1939-71 by James Goldrick / 491
Jeffrey G. Barlow, From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 by Kenneth P. Hansen / 493
Paul Silverstone, The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007 by Craig C. Felker / 494
James Holmes,
Andrew C. Winner, Toshi Yoshihara, Indian Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
by Andrew Forbes / 496
Updated: January 25, 2010