In 1840 the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company inaugurated a mail service from England to Alexandria that was then extended onwards from Suez to Ceylon, Madras and Calcutta. The transfer ...

In the opening pages Karel Davids makes the aims of his book crystal clear. He wishes to bring global, maritime and economic histories together to provide a plug for the ‘blue hole’ currently present ...

Claude Berube, a former US naval officer and instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, argues in this much-needed (and lavishly-researched) study of the late 1820s–1830s that the seventh US ...

First a cautionary note. Readers should not confuse this non-fictional account of the battle of Midway with Kevin Miller’s 2020 novel by the same title and on the same subject. Both works employ the ...

In an impressive, readable study John Harris explains how the United States slave trade expanded in the decade before the Civil War and ended abruptly. Though Congress banned the traffic in 1808 and ...

Scholars of Polynesian history, culture or language will welcome the Hakluyt Society’s critical edition of William Mariner’s An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Adam Grimshaw’s book examines Anglo-Swedish commercial and diplomatic relations in the seventeenth century. It is the first comprehensive investigation of this mutual economic and political ...

The Solebay Tapestries: Threads of History is the first in a new series of short publications which introduce and contextualize objects within the collection of Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the national ...

Between the wars, the British fishing industry faced an invidious economic climate. Costs rose, over-fishing and falling prices depressed incomes, and structural faults that had mattered little in the ...

Following the French Revolutionary, American and Napoleonic wars between 1793 and 1815, many smaller British warships were sold to merchant ship owners directly or to shipyards for breaking or resale.