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Recreation and the Sea
Leisure studies have become an increasingly important area of research within social history. In six original essays and an introduction by established historians, Recreation and …
Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850
A searching collection of investigations into British naval power in the closing centuries of the sailing ship era. The discussions focus on the later seventeenth century strategy …
British Shipbuilding and the State Since 1918
Few industries attest to the decline of Britain’s political and economic power as does the near disappearance of British shipbuilding. On the eve of the First World War, British …
Ebb Tide in the British Maritime Industries
This book examines how the principal British maritime industries - shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to a changing world in the period 1918 to 1990, …
British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century
An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. In performing these tasks, state navies were …
Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition
Sir George Cockburn was the most influential serving officer in the politics of the British navy in the nineteenth century. He came to public notice as the man who burned the White …
Coastal and River Trade in Pre-Industrial England
This book provides full case studies and fresh, critical analysis of the principal voyage patterns, commodities, traders and shipping of Bristol and its region in the seventeenth …
Pirates and Privateers
Focuses on the character of 18th- and 19th-century pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies and China, and on the significance of privateering operations based on the …
Man and the Maritime Environment
Man and the Maritime Environment is the ninth volume to be published in the now well-established series Exeter Maritime Studies which aims to investigate and interpret not only the …
Power and Politics at the Seaside
The seaside is the twentieth century's pre-eminent global tourism site and this is the first book of its kind to examine political and power relations in modern seaside resort …
Exploiting the Sea
Exploiting the Sea offers new perspectives on Britain's vital but changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth century. It assesses the significance to the British …
The Rise of the Devon Seaside Resorts, 1750-1900
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 …