Editor-in-Chief's Note / xi
Contributors / xiii
Graeme J. Milne, “North East England Shipping in the 1890s: Investment and Entrepreneurship” / 1
Hartmut Rübner and Lars U. Scholl, “Major German Shipping Lines during the 1920s and 1930s” / 27
Tarek M. Muhammad, “Ibn Manglī and Naval Warfare: The Question of Greek Fire between the Muslims and Byzantines” / 55
Jesús Angel Solórzano Telechea, “Medieval Seaports of the Atlantic Coast of Spain” / 81
Victor Enthoven, “A Diabolical Dilemma: Zeeland and the Command of the Scheldt River, 1572-1609” / 101
Guðmundur Jónsson, “Fishing Nations in Crisis: The Response of the Icelandic and Norwegian Fisheries to the Great Depression” / 127
Colin J. Davis, “Transatlantic Danger: Work and Death among
US and British Trawlermen, 1960-1974” / 153
Trygve Gulbrandsen and Even Lange, “The Survival of Family Dynasties in Shipping” / 175
Bert Becker, “The German Colony of Kiaochow and Its Postal Steamer Service, 1898-1914” / 201
Janet Macdonald,
“Documentary Sources Relating to the Work of the British Royal Navy’s
Victualling Board during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars,
1793-1815” / 239
John G. Reid with H.V. Bowen and Elizabeth Mancke, “Introduction” / 263
Keith Mercer,
A.J.B. Johnston, Emily Burton, Roger Marsters, Julian Gwyn, Sara Beanlands,
Stephen J. Hornsby and Jerry Bannister, “Is There a ‘Canadian’ Atlantic World?”
/ 269
Clare Anderson; Tonio Andrade; C.A.P. Antunes; William G. Clarence-Smith; Diogo Ramada Curto; Thomas Lindblad; Lodewijk J. Wagenaar; Nigel Worden, “Reviews of Kerry Ward, Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company” / 297
Kerry Ward, “Networks
of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company. A Roundtable
Response” / 341
REVIEW ESSAY
Robert Grenier,
Marc-André Bernier and Willis Stevens (eds.), The Underwater Archaeology of
Red Bay by Peter Pope / 351
Vincent Gabrielsen and John Lund (eds.), The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges by Ruthi Gertwagen / 359
Susan Rose, The Medieval Sea by Wendy R. Childs / 361
Sebastian I. Sobecki, The Sea and Medieval English Literature by Bernhard Klein / 362
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewics, Traders, Ties and Tensions: The Interaction of Lübeckers, Overijsslers and Hollanders in Late Medieval Bergen by Geir Atle Ersland / 363
Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno Brand (eds.), Baltic Connections: Archival Guide to the Maritime Relations of the Countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands) 1450-1800. Vol. 1, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany; Vol. 2, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands; Vol. 3, Poland, Russia, Sweden by Louis Sicking / 365
Job Weststrate, In het kielzog van moderne markten: handel en scheepvaart op de Rijn, Waal en Ijsselca 1360-1580 by Richard J. Yntema / 366
Philipp Robinson Rössner, Scottish Trade with German Ports 1700-1770: A Sketch of the North Sea Trades and the Atlantic Economy on Ground Level by Bruce P. Lenman / 368
Om Prakash (trans. & ed.), The Dutch Factories in India: A Collection of Dutch East India Company Documents Pertaining to India. Volume II (1624-1627) by Michael Pearson / 369
Eberhard Schmitt (ed.), Indienfahrer 2: Seeleute und Leben an Bord im Ersten Kolonialzeitalter (15. bis 18. Jahrhundert) by Jann M. Witt / 371
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire by Ivana Elbl / 372
Shawkat Toorawa (ed.), The Western Indian Ocean: Essays on Islands and Islanders by Markus Vink / 374
Jean-Philippe Priotti and Guy Saupin (eds.), Le Commerce Atlantique Franco-Espagnol: Acteurs, Négoces et Ports (XVe-XVIIIe Siècle) by C.A.P. Antunes / 376
Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660 by Ian K. Steele / 378
Alejandro de la Fuente; with César García del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias Delgado, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century by Franklin W. Knight / 379
Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford, John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages , 1607-1609 by Joel Konrad / 380
John G. Reid, with Emerson W. Baker, Essays on Northeastern North America, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Christopher P. Magra / 382
Nicolas Landry, Plaisance, Terre-Neuve 1650-1713: Une colonie française en Amérique by Amanda Crompton / 383
Willeen Gertrude Keough, The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, 1750-1860 by Allan Dwyer / 385
George Cartwright; Marianne Stopp (intro. & ed.), The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright by Sean Cadigan / 387
David Butcher, Lowestoft 1550-1750: Development and Change in a Suffolk Coastal Town by John C. Appleby / 389
David Butcher, Rigged for River and Sea: A researcher’s guide to late mediaeval and early-modern terms, relating to fishing and associated trades and deriving mainly from English sources by Richard C. Hoffmann / 390
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Troubled Waters: Cod War, Fishing Disputes, and Britain’s Fight for the Freedom of the High Seas, 1948-1964 by James R. Coull / 392
Mike Crocker; Rebecca Hale (photography), Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America’s Oldest Industry by Loren McClenachan / 393
David F. Arnold, The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska by Dianne Newell / 395
Douglas C. Harris, Landing Native Fisheries: Native Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 by Miriam Wright / 397
Connie Y. Chiang, Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast by Matthew McKenzie / 398
Chris Mawson and Richard Riding, British Seaside Piers by Peter Lyth / 400
Noreen Jones, North to Matsumae: Australian Whalers to Japan by Mark Howard / 401
William McOmie, The Opening of Japan, 1853-1855: A comparative study of the American, British and Russian campaigns to force the Tokugawa shogunate to conclude treaties and open ports to their ships by Randall Dodgen / 403
Fanny Loviot; Margarette Lincoln (intro.), A Lady’s Captivity Among Chinese Pirates by Dian Murray / 404
Mary Lacy; Margarette Lincoln (intro.), The Female Shipwright by Jo Stanley / 405
Warwick Hirst, The Man Who Stole the Cyprus: A true story of escape by Nathan Richards / 407
Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak (eds.), Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory: New Directions in American Maritime History by Joshua M. Smith / 408
Joan Druett, Island of the Lost; Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Alston Kennerley / 409
Críostóir MacCárthaigh (comp.), Traditional Boats of Ireland: History, Folklore and Construction by David A. Walker / 410
Walter Lewis and Rick Neilson, The River Palace: The Many Lives of the Kingston by Timothy G. Lynch / 412
Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rodgers, The Steamboat Montana and the Opening of the West: History, Excavation, and Architecture and William E. Lass, Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819-1935 by Michael Tuttle / 413
Hester Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives by Berndt Ostendorf / 415
Don MacGillivray, Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London’s Sea Wolf by William R. Morrison / 416
Kenneth R. Martin, Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering by Martin Whittemore / 417
Yrjö Kaukiainen, Ulos maailmaan! Suomalaisen merenkulun historia by Kari Teräs / 418
Peter Plowman, Coast to Coast: The Great Australian Coastal Liners by G.R. Henning / 420
Seija-Riitta Laakso, Across the Oceans: Development of Overseas Business Information Transmission 1815-1875 by Robert G. Greenhill / 421
Reginald Loyen, Haven in de branding: De economische ontwikkeling van de Antwerpse haven vanaf 1900 by Hugo van Driel / 423
Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson, Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution by John Goble / 424
James Reveley and Malcolm Tull (eds.), Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience by Anthony K.C. Beresford / 426
Niamh Moore, Dublin Docklands Reinvented: The Post-Industrial Regeneration of a European City Quarter by Stephen Pettit / 427
Andrew Parnaby, Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 by Colin Davis / 429
Birgitta Linderoth Wallace, Westward Vikings: The Saga of L’Anse aux Meadows by Alan G. Macpherson / 430
Nicolás Wey Gómez, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies by Geoffrey Symcox / 432
Glyndwr Williams, Geoff Quilley, Sergey Arutiunov, and Sophie Forgan, Smoking Coasts and ice-bound Seas: Cook’s Voyage to the Arctic by Robin Inglis / 434
Dan O’Sullivan, In Search of Captain Cook: Exploring the Man through His Own Words by Victor Suthren / 436
Glyn Williams, The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade by Alwyn Peel / 437
Hordern House Rare Books, Captain James Cook, The Greatest Discoverer: The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection by John Robson / 438
Freeman M. Tovell, At the Far Reaches of Empire: The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra by Enrique J. Porrúa / 439
Paul C. Appleton; William Barr (ed.), Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880 by Jane E. Bowden-Dan / 441
Spencer Apollonio, Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland by Ingo Heidbrink / 442
Gary Kroll, America’s Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration by Helen M. Rozwadowski / 443
Michael S. Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty’s Navy by Randolph Cock / 445
Anders Hedin, Sveriges fyrar: originalritningar 1678-1902 / Lighthouses of Sweden Original Drawings 1678-1902 by Mats Kero / 447
James P. Delgado, Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada by Paul D. Buell / 448
Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521-1580 by Colin Heywood / 449
Martin Bellamy, Christian IV and his Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy 1596-1648 by Virginia W. Lunsford / 450
Angus Konstam, Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship by Edward M. Furgol / 453
Sam Willis, Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare by John H. Harland / 454
Andrew Lambert, Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great by Nicholas Tracy / 456
Tim Voelcker, Admiral Saumarez Versus Napoleon – The Baltic, 1807-12 by Paul Webb / 458
Michael K. Barritt, Eyes of the Admiralty: J.T. Serres: An Artist in the Channel Fleet, 1799-1800 by Barry Gough / 459
Nicholas Rogers, The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and Its Opponents in Georgian Britain by Keith Mercer / 460
Margarette Lincoln, Naval Wives and Mistresses by Cheryl Fury / 462
Kenneth J. Hagan (ed.); Michael T. McMaster (assoc. ed.), In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval History – 30th Anniversary Edition by Craig C. Felker / 464
Roger Parkinson, The Late Victorian Navy: The Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War by Christopher Martin / 466
Anastasios K. Dimitrakopoulos, Viographiko Lexiko ton Apophoiton tes Scholis Nautikon Dokimon. Oi Takseis Eisodou 1884-1950 and Oi Takseis Eisodou 1951-1973 by Zisis Fotakis / 467
Robert Shenk (ed.), Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery 1920-1924 by James C. Bradford / 468
Vincent P. O’Hara, The U.S. Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat 1941-1945 by Harold D. Langley / 470
John A. Adams, If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy by Kenneth P. Hansen / 471
Kenneth H. Goldman, Attack Transport: USS Charles Carroll in World War II. By Salvatore R. Mercogliano / 473
David Miller, Mercy Ships: The Untold Story of Prisoner of War Exchanges in World War II by Jan Drent / 474
John Darrell Sherwood, “Black Sailor, White Navy”: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era by Fred Harrod / 475
Christian Hébert, NCSM Montcalm: Le français dans la Marine canadienne by Serge Durflinger / 476
George J. Billy and Christine M. Billy, Merchant Mariners at War: An Oral History of World War II by Morgiana P. Halley / 478
Bernard D. Cole, Sea Lanes and Pipelines: Energy Security in East Asia by Peter Lehr / 479
James J. Wirtz
and Jeffrey A. Larsen (eds.), Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations:
Stability from the Sea by Angus Topshee / 481
Updated: October 13, 2009