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This volume collects eight essays that all attempt to answer two key concerns: did markets for seafarers exist in the age of sail; and, if so, were these market

Aims to challenge the belief that the market for seafarers, in the days before steam, was efficient, and that it conformed more or less to a strong prior belief

This collection provides a tribute to the career of maritime historian Yrjö Kaukiainen, composed upon his retirement from the University of Helsinki. It collec

This book explores the historical evolution of a Mediterranean village that radically changed its core self-sustaining activities in less than a century, from f

Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that bla