Editor-in-Chief's Note / xi
Contributors / xiii
Valentina K. Tikoff, “Saint Elmo’s Orphans: Navigation Education and Training at the Royal School of San Telmo in Seville during the Eighteenth Century” / 1
William B. Leavenworth, “The Changing Landscape of Maritime Resources in Seventeenth-Century New England” / 33
Ghulam A. Nadri, “The Dutch Intra-Asian Trade in Sugar in the Eighteenth Century” / 63
Chesley W. Sanger, “Prologue to Scottish Domination of Northern Whaling: The Role of the French Revolutionary War, 1793-1801” / 97
Morten Karnøe Søndergaard, “The Rise and Fall of the North European Mackerel Fisheries in the Nineteenth Century” / 115
Henry Chen, “Japan and the Birth of Takao’s Fisheries in Nanyo, 1895-1945” / 133
Chih-lung Lin, “British Shipping in the Orient, 1933-1939: Reasons for Its Failure to Compete” / 153
Morten Hahn-Pedersen, “The
Impact of North Sea Oil and Gas on a Danish Region” / 173
Alston Kennerley, “Stoking the Boilers: Firemen and Trimmers in British Merchant Ships, 1850-1950” / 191
David J. Clarke, “The
Development of a Pioneering Steamship Line: William Wheelwright and the Origins
of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company” / 221
Morten Karnøe Søndergaard and Chris Reid, “Global Fisheries History: International Perspectives on Fisheries Markets, c. 1850-2005” / 251
Olivier Levasseur and Darin Kinsey, “The Second Empire Legacy of the French ‘Culture’ of Oysters” / 253
Nobutake Koiwa, “The Development of Trade in Marine Products and the Transformation of the Japanese Fisheries” / 269
Jesús M. Martínez Milán, “Integrating Western Saharan
Coastal Fisheries into the International Economy, 1885-1975” / 281
Jim Candow; James R. Coull; Lucia Fanning; Susan Hanna; Daniel S. Holland; Matthew McKenzie; Murray Rudd; and Morten Karnøe Søndergaard, “Reviews of George A. Rose, Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries” / 293
George A.
Rose, “Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries: A
Roundtable Response,” / 339
REVIEW ESSAY
John B. Hattendorf (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Maritime History by Olaf U. Janzen / 351
Paul Rainbird, The Archaeology of Islands by Margaret Purser / 357
Tasha Vorderstrasse, Al-Mina. A Port of Antioch from Late Antiquity to the End of the Ottomans by Ruthi Gertwagen / 358
Hassan S. Khalilieh, Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050): The Kitāb Akriyat al-Sufun vis-à-vis the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos by Molly Greene / 360
Roderich Ptak, Die Maritime Seidenstraße: Küstenräume, Seefahrt und Handel in vorkolonialer Zeit by Sebastian R. Prange / 362
Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century by Paul D. Buell / 364
Nordin Hussin, Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830 by Alfons van der Kraan / 365
Janet Bately and Anton Englert (eds.), Ohthere’s Voyages: A Late 9th-century Account of Voyages Along the Coasts of Norway and Denmark and Its Cultural Context by Benjamin Hudson / 367
R. Andrew McDonald, Manx Kingship in Its Irish Sea Setting 1187-1229: King Rognvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty by David Beougher / 369
Hanno Brand (ed.), Trade, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: Continuity and Change in the North Sea Area and the Baltic c. 1350-1750 by Victor Enthoven / 370
Joyce Lorimer (ed.), Sir Walter Ralegh’s ‘Discoverie of Guiana’ and Benjamin Schmidt (ed. and intro.), The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh with Related Documents by Ken MacMillan / 372
Peter C. Mancall (ed.), The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 by Stephen J. Hornsby / 374
Nancy L. Rhoden (ed.), English Atlantics Revisited: Essays Honouring Ian K. Steele by Allan Dwyer / 376
David Cannadine (ed.), Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain’s Maritime World, 1763-1833 by Andrew Porter / 377
Miles Taylor (ed.), Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire by Adrian Jarvis / 379
David Dickson, Jan Parmentier and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds.), Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Ian K. Steele / 380
David Thomas, Hen Longau Sir Gaernarfon (The Old Ships of Caernarfonshire) by David Jenkins / 382
Gerd Wegner, “...in den rauhesten nordlichen Gegenden...” Naturkundliche Betrachtungen zur Förderung des Seehandels und des Walfangs im 18. Jahrhundert by Michael L. Hadley / 383
Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea by Joseph E. Taylor III / 384
Lester D. Stephens and Dale R. Calder, Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology by Alistair Sponsel / 386
James A. Estes, Douglas P. DeMaster, Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, Robert L. Brownell, Jr. (eds.), Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems by Scott D. Kraus / 387
D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by Daniel Stewart / 389
John H. Jameson, Jr. and Della A. Scott-Ireton (eds.), Out of the Blue: Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources by Garth Wilson / 391
Michael Nash (ed.), Shipwreck Archaeology in Australia by Jerome Lynn Hall / 392
W. Craig Gaines, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks by Thomas J. Oertling / 394
Morten Hahn-Pedersen (ed.), Sjæk’len 2006: Årbog for Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Saltvandsakvariet i Esbjerg by Tore Nielsen / 395
Torsten Feys, Lewis R. Fischer, Stéphane Hoste and Stephan Vanfraechem (eds.), Maritime Transport and Migration: The Connections between Maritime and Migration Networks by Raymond L. Cohn / 396
Sylviane A. Diouf, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Trevor Burnard / 398
Graeme J. Milne, North East England, 1850-1914: The Dynamics of a Maritime-Industrial Region by John Armstrong / 399
Eric Lawson; John McKay (illus.), The Egeria: An Example of Mid-Nineteenth Century New Brunswick Ship Construction by David A Walker / 401
Gordon C. Cook, Disease in the Merchant Navy: A History of the Seamen’s Hospital Society by Tony Lane / 402
Robin Craig, Ann Nix and Michael Nix (eds.), Chronometer Jack: The Autobiography of the Shipmaster, John Miller of Edinburgh (1802-1883) by Alan G. Jamieson / 404
Lars Amenda, Fremde – Hafen – Stadt. Chinesische Migration und ihre Wahrnehmung in Hamburg 1897-1972 by Lars U. Scholl / 406
Paul F. Paskoff, Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821-1860 by Timothy G. Lynch / 407
Søren Thirslund, Viking Navigation by Alan G. Macpherson / 408
Ian R. Bartky, One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity by Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns / 410
Ronald S. Love, Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery, 1415-1800 by Joel Konrad / 411
Graeme Henderson, Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian Shipwrecks 1622-1850 by Nathan Richards / 412
George Foster; Nigel Erskine (introd.), Cook, der Entdecker: Versuch eines Denkmals by Roy Schreiber / 414
John Dunmore, Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-François de la Pérouse by John Robson / 415
Alfred S. Bradford, Flying the Black Flag A Brief History of Piracy by John C. Appleby / 417
Benerson Little, The Buccaneer’s Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688 by Arne Bialuschewski / 418
Joseph Gibbs, Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Lives and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs by B.R. Burg / 419
Peter Lehr (ed.), Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism by Kenneth McPherson / 420
Brian Lavery, Shield of Empire: The Royal Navy in Scotland by Eric J. Graham / 422
A.Th. van Deursen, Jaap R. Bruijn, J.E. Korteweg, De Admiraal: De wereld van Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter by Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek / 423
Victor Enthoven, Remmelt Daalder, Peter Blom, Een Zeeuwse zeeschilder: Engel Hoogerheyden (1740-1807) by Irene B. Jacobs / 425
Nicholas Tracy, Britannia’s Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory by Colin White / 426
Tim Clayton, Tars: The Men Who Made Britain Rule the Waves by Keith Mercer / 428
Geoffrey L. Hudson (ed.), British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830 by Tabitha Marshall / 429
David Cordingly, Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by John McKay / 431
Brian Vale, Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America by Paul Webb / 432
Claude Duchemin, Un Viking à la Convention: Chroniques du capitaine de vaisseau Jean Nicolas Topsent, 1755-1816 by Alan James / 433
Harry W. Dickinson, Educating the Royal Navy: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Education for Officers by N.A.M. Rodger / 434
Carl D. Park, Ironclad Down: USS Merrimack – CSS Virginia from Construction to Destruction by Howard J. Fuller / 436
Coy F. Cross II, Lincoln’s Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships by Kenneth J. Blume / 438
Stephen K. Stein, From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers and Technological Innovation in the New Navy, 1876-1913 by James C. Bradford / 439
Ian Marshall, Cruisers and ‘La Guerre de Course’ by Serge Durflinger / 440
Arne Røksund, The Jeune École: The Strategy of the Weak by Nicholas A. Lambert / 442
Alexey D. Muraviev, The Russian Pacific Fleet: From the Crimean War to Perestroika by Martin J. Bollinger / 444
Evgeny Sergeev, Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904‑05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea by M. Stephen Salmon / 445
Matthew S. Seligmann (ed.), Naval Intelligence from Germany: The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914 by Michael Epkenhans / 446
William N. Still, Jr., Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I by James R. Reckner / 447
Lawrence Paterson, U-Boats in the Mediterranean, 1941-1944 by Axel Niestlé / 449
Howard D. Grier, Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich’s Last Hope, 1944-1945 by Eric C. Rust / 450
Edward J. Marolda (ed.), The U.S. Navy in the Korean War by Kenneth P. Hansen / 452
James Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan by Jack McCaffrie / 453
Jonathan Rayner, The Naval War Film: Genre, History and
National Cinema by Fred Donnelly / 455
Updated: July 17, 2008