Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004426345
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800
Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004426345
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004426345
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800
Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: Technology and Change in Histo
ISBN: 9789004424081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic during the two centuries of its development was static for all intents and purposes, and that whatever incremental changes took place in it were inconsequential to the development of the British Empire and its offshoots. Drawing on a unique combination of evidence from both traditional and unconventional sources, Phillip Reid shows how merchants, shipwrights, and mariners used both proven principles and adaptive innovations in hulls, rigs, and steering systems to manage high physical and financial risks"--
Publisher: Technology and Change in Histo
ISBN: 9789004424081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800, Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic during the two centuries of its development was static for all intents and purposes, and that whatever incremental changes took place in it were inconsequential to the development of the British Empire and its offshoots. Drawing on a unique combination of evidence from both traditional and unconventional sources, Phillip Reid shows how merchants, shipwrights, and mariners used both proven principles and adaptive innovations in hulls, rigs, and steering systems to manage high physical and financial risks"--
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Author: Pieter C. Emmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions.
A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772
Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Uses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a customs-enforcement interceptor on the North American eastern seaboard in the period leading up to the American Declaration of Independence, when British taxation of American trade was a hugely contentious issue. As a typical workaday British American merchant ship taken into naval service, Sultana offers a rare opportunity to understand a technology of paramount importance to this world, where records for merchant ships are scarce, but where in this case a wealth of information, from plan drawings to the fully-intact logbooks, has survived. The book provides a detailed narrative of the ship's activities, and reveals the nature of life on board and the day to day business of operating a small sailing ship. It explores the technology of the ship and her sailing qualities as revealed by the ship's logs and also by the performance of a modern replica. In addition, the book situates Sultana's role within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. It is thereby both naval microhistory and also Atlantic history for all scholars interested in the formation and development of the British Atlantic world.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Uses rare surviving records, including fully intact logbooks, to situate the customs-enforcement interceptor Sultana within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. The small Boston-built schooner Sultana served as a customs-enforcement interceptor on the North American eastern seaboard in the period leading up to the American Declaration of Independence, when British taxation of American trade was a hugely contentious issue. As a typical workaday British American merchant ship taken into naval service, Sultana offers a rare opportunity to understand a technology of paramount importance to this world, where records for merchant ships are scarce, but where in this case a wealth of information, from plan drawings to the fully-intact logbooks, has survived. The book provides a detailed narrative of the ship's activities, and reveals the nature of life on board and the day to day business of operating a small sailing ship. It explores the technology of the ship and her sailing qualities as revealed by the ship's logs and also by the performance of a modern replica. In addition, the book situates Sultana's role within the wider picture of the British Atlantic in this crucial period. It is thereby both naval microhistory and also Atlantic history for all scholars interested in the formation and development of the British Atlantic world.
Merchant Ship Shapes
The Story of the American Merchant Marine
Author: John Randolph Spears
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Rise of Commercial Empires
Author: David Ormrod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521819268
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521819268
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.
One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine Corps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754
Author: Gottlieb Mittelberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Special Notice to Mariners
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description