Maritime History
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From the foundation of the Order of St John in 11th century Syria as a community of lay brethren intent on providing shelter, care and assistance to pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, the destiny of the Hospitaller Knights was irremediably... more
Als Berufsoffizier, der zusätzlich zu seinen dienstlichen Aufgaben 2012 das Diplomstudium der Geschichte absolviert hat, durfte ich im Rahmen des Grundausbildungslehrgangs für MBO1 (GALG) dieses Thema auswählen. Dieses hat auch zu meinem... more
Review of Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Kären Wigen, eds., Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007). Journal of History and Anthropology 8.1 (2010):... more
"Early colonial economies in North America and Australia were commonly based on a combination of the importation of goods and a system of local production which included subsistence agriculture and hunting. Before 1850 the Australian... more
This article investigates the growth of cross-border movement and migration in the northern portion of the Yellow Sea during the sixteenth century, which generated ongoing interactions and tensions with the coastal governance of Chosŏn... more
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these... more
« L'esprit humain a toujours été fasciné par les baleines. Le sujet n'a toutefois guère captivé les historiens canadiens, sans doute parce qu'au Canada la pêche à la baleine a presque toujours été pratiquée par des étrangers », Mario... more
Hour-long lecture given at the International Center for Underwater Archaeology, Zadar, Croatia, in October of 2016
"Scurvy is a deficiency disorder caused by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in the diet and specifically by insufficient vitamin C (ascorbic acid). It is not infectious and results from a combination of psycho-social and environmental... more
The Turkish island of Bozcaada, widely known by its ancient Greek name of Tenedos, is located in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Due to military conflicts during World War I and World War II, and because of the startegic... more
Cette communication a eu lieu le 31 mars 2017, dans le cadre du séminaire doctoral d'Alexandre Gady. Elle fut l'occasion de révéler une documentation inédite permettant de porter un nouveau regard sur le projet de place Louis XVI destiné... more
"It has been estimated that more than 1.6 million immigrants travelled to Australia by ship between 1788 and 1900. Nearly half were government-assisted and came primarily from Britain, albeit with smaller numbers from Europe and... more
Asia Pacific Perspectives, Volume XIII Number 1, Spring/Summer 2015 https://web.usfca.edu/uploadedFiles/Destinations/Institutes_and_Centers/center-asia-pacific/perspectives/v13n1/APP%20XIII1%2002%20French%2008-17-15.pdf This paper,... more
Análise do contributo das instituições e dos historiadores da Marinha para a História Marítima em Portugal ao longo dos últimos dois séculos, quer numa perspectiva integrada, quer na óptica individualizada dos vários intervenientes. ***... more
Though Odysseus’ tales to Eumaios and Aninoos in Odyssey 14.199–359 and 17.417–44, respectively, are presented as fictional tales within Homer’s larger myth, some elements have striking analogs in Late Bronze–Early Iron Age reality.... more
In this paper I focus on textiles from the Indian subcontinent traded across the Indian Ocean. India has traditionally been one of the major producers of cotton fabrics in the Indian Ocean region.
Stella Ghervas (2018). "The Black Sea", in Oceanic Histories, ed. David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 234-266. Abstract of the volume: "Oceanic Histories is the... more
The maritime interstate trade in bondspersons illustrates the contours of United States capitalism of the early nineteenth century as it developed between 1807 and midcentury. The saltwater trade between the Chesapeake and New Orleans... more
A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Maritime Archeology Program
at the University of Southern Denmark
September 2011
Jason Lain Lunze.
Supervisor: Thijs Maarleveld
at the University of Southern Denmark
September 2011
Jason Lain Lunze.
Supervisor: Thijs Maarleveld
This is a working paper that I wrote while in grad school. I hope to return to this project and publish an extension of this research in the future.
Las acciones humanitarias llevadas a cabo por el Capitán de Navío Miguel Grau Seminario se adelantaron a la codificación de las mismas por parte del derecho internacional. Si bien no fueron una exclusividad en la historia naval del mundo,... more
This article uses prize to examine the end of war in the twentieth century. By enshrining the victor’s right to seize enemy merchant ships after the cessation of military hostilities, the 1918 Armistice changed how war ended. This... more
This is a poignant moment to contemplate the sea, and mankind's relationship to it. The pressures of climate change and human activity—from large-scale aquaculture to container shipping, from mineral extraction to deep-sea... more
This paper reviews the earliest empirical evidence for seafaring, leading to the exploits of Homo erectus in two world regions. This leads to the explanation of the rationale of replication experiments intended to establish the minimum... more
"Few landscapes change more rapid than the marine. Sandbanks, channels and even complete coastlines can change dramatically overnight. This is a threat not only for modern mariners, our seafaring forefathers knew this problem also all too... more
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review 41, 1993: 82-3. Review of an important study of the economic history Norwegian fisheries - unfortunately never translated into English.
Japanese whaling regularly appears in the news today, but there has been surprisingly little written in English about the subject from a historical perspective. Jakobina Arch's Bringing Whales Ashore takes a giant stride toward remedying... more
A partial analysis of Dr. James T. White's 1901 ethnographic survey about Alaska Natives living along the Yukon River and the missionary responses to that survey. Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Western History Association,... more