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Review: ‘China’s Law of the Sea: The new rules of maritime order’ by I. B. Kardon: ‘
China’s threat has, perhaps, been over mentioned in academia and so finding a pioneering approach could prove challenging. Isaac Kardon has successfully proved his prominence with this intensive empirical book through a unique perspective which focuses on China’s revisioning agenda in the law of the sea. Kardon has designed an ambitious research question of whether […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Strategy & Diplomacy
Review: ‘Elizabeth’s Navy: Seventy years of the postwar Royal Navy’ by P. Brown:’
This handsome book has been published following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and sets out to describe the Royal Navy during the 70 years of her reign both visually and in words. It is arranged chronologically, with each chapter broadly covering a decade. The first part of every chapter gives a short six- to […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Navies
Review: ‘Chasing the Bounty: The voyages of the ‘Pandora’ and ‘Matavy’ ‘ by D. A. Maxton (ed.)
In this lively and engaging book, Donald A. Maxton draws welcome attention to the oft-forgotten postscript to the infamous Bounty mutiny and clearly conveys that, in terms of drama, peril, and human endurance, the ordeal of the men of the Pandora and Matavy rivals anything faced by Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian, or their shipmates. The […] Read More
Filed under: Mutiny & Discipline | Other (Eighteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Administration | Biography
Review: ‘The Overseas Trade of British America: A narrative history’ by T. M. Truxes
Building on the foundation of his long career of studying colonial North American trade and its economy, Thomas Truxes provides a sweeping, long-run narrative of the maritime trade of British America up until the advent of independence for the United States of America. Looking to explicate the origins, development, and significance of British America in […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Seven Years’ War | American Revolution | American Civil War
Subjects include: Administration | Merchant Marines | Pirates, Corsairs & Privateers | Strategy & Diplomacy
Review: ‘ Military Power and the Dutch Republic: War, trade, and the balance of power in Europe, 1648–1813 Military History of the Netherlands, vol. 2,’ by M. van Alphen, A. Lemmers, J. Hoffenaar and C. van der Spek. Leiden
This important book follows the first volume of the series, The Eighty Years War: From revolt to regular war, 1568–1648 of 2019, reviewed here in 2021. Written at the Netherlands Institute for Military History, it has been expertly translated by Paul Arblaster and Lee Preedy. The editorial board’s decision to shift the focus of the […] Read More
Filed under: Napoleonic War | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C) | Other (Eighteenth C)
Subjects include: Administration | Battles & Tactics | Manpower & Life at Sea | Science & Exploration | Strategy & Diplomacy
Review: ‘Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the ‘Gloucester’: A true Restoration tragedy’ by N. Pickford,
The North Sea is a shallow but unforgiving sea, susceptible to violent and unpredictable weather, poor visibility, and beset with shifting shallows, nowhere more so than the vicinity of the North Norfolk Sandbanks and particularly the inner two called the Leman and the Ower. Dawn on 6 May 1682 revealed this sea at its worst, […] Read More
Filed under: North Sea | Other (Early Modern) | Shipwrecks
Subjects include: Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration
Note: Time to Talk Turkey: The British Naval and German military missions to the Ottoman Empire in 1912–14
From December 1908 until autumn 1914, the British Naval Mission to the Ottoman empire worked ‘strenuously, though for the most part futilely’ to encourage improvements in their host’s navy.Footnote1 The officers in charge of this mission were in turn Rear-Admirals Douglas Gamble (1909–10), Hugh Pigot Williams (1910– 12) and Arthur Henry Limpus (1912–14).Footnote2 Recognizing the […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C)
Subjects include: Navies | Ship Handling & Seamanship | Strategy & Diplomacy
The Flag-waving Names of Ocean Liners
Proper names not only serve as identifiers of people, places and other entities, they may also function as markers of personal and national identity. Eponymous and toponymous names of ships often function as metaphors or metonyms, signifying country or place of origin. During the first half of the twentieth century, ocean liner names became tropes […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Miscellaneous
The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919
This article endeavours to construct the history of the Beckwith family and their various partners in a shipping business which, in various forms, operated out of the port of Colchester from 1816 to 1919. The family’s interests began with Joseph Beckwith, a master mariner on the coastal trade. Through his connections with shipowners, his sons […] Read More
Filed under: English Channel | North Sea | Other (Twentieth C) | Other (Nineteenth C)
Subjects include: Biography | Merchant Marines
Navalism and Imperial Culture in Spain: The origins and celebration of the Chincha Islands War (1834–1868)
The article examines how the Chincha Islands War led to the consolidation and socialization of Spanish navalism, understood as a language of legitimacy that sought the regeneration of the monarchy through the identification of its citizens with the Real Armada and the consolidation of the latter as a modern instrument of imperial power and international […] Read More
Filed under: Other (Nineteenth C) | Pacific
Subjects include: Navies | Strategy & Diplomacy