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...Charles C. Griffin The Growth of the Shipping Industry in the Rio de la Plata Region 1794-1860 . By Kroeber Clifton B. . Madison , 1957 . The University of Wisconsin Press . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 194 . $4.00 . Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press...

...C. J. Bishko The Northern Seas. Shipping and Commerce in Northern Europe A.D. 300-1100 . By Lewis Archibald R. . Princeton, New Jersey , 1958 . Princeton University Press . Illustrations. Index . Pp. xi , 498 . $9.00 . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

... America underwent between the 1640s and the 1650s. In these years, intra-American transimperial shipping displaced direct slave voyages from Africa to the Spanish Caribbean. By focusing on the elements that underpinned Portobelo's emergence, this essay shows how shifting transimperial connections affected...

...Lawrence A. Harper English Merchant Shipping, 1460-1540 . By Burwash Dorothy . ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1947 . Pp. xii , 259 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...James Gregory Cusick The Last Voyage of El Nuevo Constante: The Wreck and Recovery of an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Ship off the Louisiana Coast . By Pearson Charles E. and Hoffman Paul E. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1995 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables...

...Eugene Lyon Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus . By Smith Roger C. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1993 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossaries. Bibliographic essay. Indexes, xii, 316 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1994...

... and at times scintillating archival work. Tantalizing insights reward the reader at every turn. One can imagine that, due to design limitations, a lot of compelling details and important references did not make the final cut, but in other ways The Last Slave Ships also deftly reminds readers...

.... viii , 69 . Paper . The Siege of Mobile, 1780, in Maps: With Data on Troop Strength, Military Units, Ships, Casualties, and Prisoners of War including a Brief History of Fort Charlotte (Condé) . By Coker William S. and Coker Hazel P. . Pensacola : Perdido Bay Press , 1982 . Maps...

...-Hidalgo’s sources—and his deductions—will have no argument with his plans; others will be on safe ground maintaining their favorite theories. No contemporary painting or drawing exists of any ship in which Columbus sailed, but Martínez-Hidalgo dismisses this fact very airily: “It is unnecessary to dwell...

... a short historical introduction on ancient shipping in order to appreciate what is to follow. The wide range of the field is best shown in chapter 9. Here are described the draining of Lake Nemi to reveal sumptuous Roman pleasure barges, the discovery of Palaeolithic sculpture in the Pyrenees, explorers...

...Vernon D. Tate Conquest of the Seas. The History and Adventure of Sea and Ships . By Bowen Frank Charles . ( New York : Robert McBride and Company , 1940 . Pp. 423 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 ...

...Richard W. Ghonet A Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, During the Years 1829 and 1830 with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena . By Stewart C. S. . 2 vols, in 1. New York and London , 1971 (1831) . Praeger Publishers . Pp. x...

...Isadora Moura Mota Abstract This article approaches Brazil as a forgotten Atlantic battleground of the American Civil War. I explore armed confrontations of Union and Confederate vessels along the Brazilian coast as well as slave flight to North American ships to understand how the war inspired...

...Casey Schmitt Abstract Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, European traffickers frequented the Caribbean in search of ships to plunder and gained access to Spanish America's closed markets by seizing captives and smuggling them into underserved ports. For traffickers, these activities depended...

...John K. Thornton Abstract The early eighteenth century witnessed the rise to power of the Miskitu Zambos within the Miskitu Kingdom on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and Nicaragua. The Zambos were the offspring of African slaves from a pirated slave ship and the indigenous inhabitants...