How history's triumphs and failures shape our search for ourselves We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of Paradise. Some of them are incredible continuations of God's crea
This study presents a new theory about the developments in shipping and naval organization that culminated in the invention - around 530 BC in the eastern Mediterranean - of the Trireme, and the subse
The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet remarkably little has been written abou
Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial
In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China's Navy as it continues to grow in the unfolding twenty-first century while the U.S. Navy is shrinking. The Great Wall at Sea, Se
This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched, and Mountbatten Maritime Prize-winning book chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history led by Samuel Plimsoll, MP, "The Sailor's Fri
