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Author : Harold Edward Stephen Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book West Country Maritime and Social History written by Harold Edward Stephen Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars U. Scholl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949164
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Merchants and Mariners written by Lars U. Scholl and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Williams, in order to pay tribute to his career. The essays stretch from 1807 through to the end of the nineteenth century, and address both economic and social themes. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships, the state regulations concerning shipping, shipwrecks and loss of life, passenger cargoes, slavery, cotton, timber and coffee trades, and the working conditions of seamen over the course of the century. The plight of the maritime labourer is at the core of this collection. The essays primarily focus on British shipping, and firmly places it within an international context. The book is introduced by Lars U. Scholl, followed by two tributes to Williams’ career, one by Peter N. Davies, the other by Lewis R. Fischer. Scholl concludes the volume with a thorough bibliography of Williams’ maritime writings: books, chapters, and articles.
Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198224969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author : John F. Travis
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859893923
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900 written by John F. Travis and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places. Themes covered include bathing rituals and sea-water drinking, health cures and cholera epidemics, sophisticated amusements and improving recreations, paddle-steamers and excursion trains.
Author : Cathryn J. Pearce
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184383555X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 written by Cathryn J. Pearce and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the complex laws and practices relating to wreck law, that is the right to salvage goods washed up on the shore, examines how Cornish people made use of this "harvest of the sea" and explores how myths about Cornish wrecking have developed.
Author : Karel Davids
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350142158
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660-1860 written by Karel Davids and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks to fill the 'blue hole' in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalisation and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime history should be put firmly at the heart of global history. Exploring the dynamics of globalisation, knowledge-making and European expansion, Global Ocean of Knowledge takes a transnational approach and transgresses the traditional border between the early modern and modern periods. It focuses on three main periodisations, which correspond with major transformations in the globalisation of the Atlantic World, and analyses how and to what extent globalisation forces from above and from below influenced the development and exchange of knowledge. Davids distinguishes three forms of globalising forces 'from above'; imperial, commercial and religious, alongside self-organisation, the globalising force 'from below'. Exploring how globalisation advanced and its relationship with knowledge changed over time, this book bridges global, maritime, intellectual and economic history to reflect on the role of the oceans in making the world a more connected place.
Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445667215
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The First Atlantic Liner written by Helen Doe and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s forgotten first ship, the SS Great Western, the fastest and largest Atlantic Steamship of its day.
Author : Helen Doe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445684527
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book SS Great Britain written by Helen Doe and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources
Author : Paul C. van Royen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949229
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Those Emblems of Hell? written by Paul C. van Royen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects a series of reports from maritime historians across Europe, aiming to provide a coherent historical trajectory of the lives of European sailors and their dealings with the maritime labour market; the reports were presented at The Hague’s 1994 conference, ’European Sailors, 1570-1870.’ The core areas discussed in the first half of the volume include: the national maritime labour market; the international maritime labour market; working conditions for sailors; and career patterns. The second half features reports detailing the sailing history of a selection European countries:- the Netherlands; England; Scotland; Britain as a whole; Iceland; Norway; Finland; Denmark; Germany; Belgium; France; and Spain. Each report responds to a set of questions distributed by the commissioning editors, so that the data from each country can be compared and contrasted. Questions considered include the number of sailors represented in the navy, mercantile, marine, or whaling industries; the socio-economic background of sailors; wage details; recruitment policies; strikes; mutinies; and career mobility amongst sailors. The volume provides an overview of the history of sailors to enable a strengthening of data in the field of maritime history as it continues to develop and extend.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Hamilton Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book West-Country Stories and Sketches, Biographical and Historical written by William Henry Hamilton Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cheryl A. Fury
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843836890
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649 written by Cheryl A. Fury and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the lives of common sailors engaged in commerce, exploration, privateering and piracy, and naval actions during Tudor and Stuart periods.
Author : Michael Duffy
Publisher : Brassey's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Maritime History of Devon: From early times to the late eighteenth century written by Michael Duffy and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1992 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Costas Grammenos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135134138
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business written by Costas Grammenos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the founding title in the Grammenos Library. The diversity of the subjects covered is unique and the results of research developed over many years are not only comprehensive, but also have important implications on real life issues in maritime business. The new edition covers a vast number of topics, including: • Shipping Economics and Maritime Nexus • International Seaborne Trade • Economics of Shipping Market and Shipping Cycles • Economics of Shipping Sectors • Issues in Liner Shipping • Economics of Maritime Safety and Seafaring Labour Market • National and International Shipping Policies • Aspects of Shipping Management and Operations• Shipping Investment and Finance • Port Economics and Management • Aspects of International Logistics
Author : Nigel Morgan
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859895712
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Power and Politics at the Seaside written by Nigel Morgan and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seaside is the 20th century's pre-eminent global tourism site and this work examines political and power relations in modern seaside resort development. As an historical study of seaside tourism in Devon - England's most popular domestic holiday desitination - it reveals the complex interplay between ideology, class and power and the comsumption of landscape and place.
Author : John Armstrong
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948885
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Technological Change written by John Armstrong and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an in-depth study of the impact of the steamship on Britain during its first forty years, roughly between 1810 and 1850. It relates the early steamship to several industrial themes including diffusion; construction; modernisation; the role of government - particularly the difficult attempt to align laissez-faire politics with the greater need for public safety measures due to technological advance; business and finance; plus public reaction and tourism. The aim is to establish the significance of the steamship as a conduit of modernisation and societal change. It consists of a foreword, introduction, and fourteen chapters devoted to specific themes, structured to ensure each chapters build on the preceding chapter’s progress. Collectively, they demonstrate that the development of both experience and enterprise with steam power both gained and refined during this period made the mid-century expansion of steamship technology across Britain possible. Ultimately, it establishes that steamship services began to adapt to oceanic routes, steam began to integrate into the world economy, and the age of sail began to draw to a close.
Author : William B. Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016211
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed written by William B. Stephens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the Crown's income from customs duties (on which it relied for much of its revenue). Starting at Bristol, Culliford eventually completed this daunting task in Cornwall over two years later in the spring of 1684. His report on each of the ports he inspected (the primary source for this book) revealed widespread smuggling and fraud in the context of a customs service both lacking in efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book documents the varied frauds and wide-ranging abuses uncovered and their facilitation by customs officers only too ready to collude with smugglers, dishonest merchants and seamen and to accept bribes to ignore tax evasion. It describes, too, Culliford's assessment of the administrative practices of each port inspected and his judgment on the levels of probity and efficiency of individual officers, detailing his recommendations for procedural improvements and the treatment of the corrupt and incompetent and, incidentally, of those suspected of political and religious dissent. Additionally, the book presents a body of statistical data on the customs revenue actually collected at individual ports in the 1670s and 1680s and surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade of the ports Culliford examined. It thus not only throws light on the history of the customs service, but provides a rare insight into the interactions of economic, social and political issues in the later seventeenth century, and makes a valuable contribution to the particular histories of the ports and maritime districts visited by this energetic and tenacious investigator.
