This second volume of articles by G.V. Scammell offers new insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration i

This second volume of articles by G.V. Scammell offers new insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration i

The articles collected here (two appearing for the first time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the author's contenti

Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED fo

From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in fishing, whal