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Brown, Paul. Maritime Portsmouth: A History and Guide. Stroud: Tempus, 2005, 160 pp.

Categories:

general history; port;

Keywords:

port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot , general history, general survey, survey

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Brown, Ralph Minthorne. Bibliography of Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury: Including a Biographical Sketch. Blacksburg, 1930, 61 pp.

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, bibliography, list, listing , biography, cartography, map, mapping, chart, geography, geographical

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Brown, Raymond J. "Won By Such as We." USNIP, 115 (June 1989): 43-48. Captain Frederick John Walker & Battle of the Atlantic.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, world war 2, second world war, Battle of the Atlantic, U-boat, anti-submarine warfare, Royal Navy, United States Navy, US Navy

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Brown, Reginald Allen, et al. The History of the King's Works. London: HMSO, 1963, xxvi, 552 pp. Buildings to 1485; included plans.

Keywords:

15th century, fifteenth, middle ages (400-1399), general history, general survey, survey

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Brown, Reginald Allen. "The Norman Conquest." TRHS (November 1966): 109-30.

Keywords:

invasion, armada, landing , middle ages (400-1399)

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Brown, Richard. Voyage of the Iceberg: The Story of the Iceberg that Sank the Titanic. Toronto: Lorimer; London: Bodley Head, 1983, 1985, 160 pp. "It cracked the complacency of the civilized world."

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20th century, twentieth, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster , voyage

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Brown, Robert Thomas. "William Fitzwilliam Owen: Hydrographer of the African Coast, 1774-1857." Ph.D. diss, Syracuse, 1972, 355 pp. (DAI 33/03, p. 1094).

Keywords:

19th century, nineteenth, 18th century, eighteenth, biography, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure

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Brown, Rustie E. The Titanic: The Psychic and the Sea. Lomita: Blue Harbor, 1981, 1982, xii, 163 pp. Foreword: Allan Vaughan; contended series of documented premonitions; not convincing.

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20th century, twentieth, wreck, shipwreck, nautical archaeology , Titanic, passenger liner, wreck, tragedy, disaster

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Brown, Ruth Rhynas. "Arming the East Indiamen." See M. Bound, Archaeology of Ships of War, pp. 114-19. Summary: 1st to be armed: Red Dragon, early 17th century; focus: late 18th century.

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17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, ship, boat, vessel, weapon, arms trade , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, East India Company, charter company, Raj

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Brown, Shirley Ann. The Bayeux Tapestry: History and Bibliography. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1988, 186 pp.

Keywords:

bibliography, list, listing , bayeux tapestry, middle ages (400-1399)

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Brown, Stephen R. Scurvy. New York: St. Martin, 2004, 256 pp. Worst of all dangers; development of cure.

Categories:

health; scurvy;

Keywords:

scurvy, health, search for cure, vitamin C deficiency , health, sickness, illness, medicine, surgeon

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Brown, Vera L. "Contraband Trade: A Factor in the Decline of Spain's Empire in America." Hispanic AHR, 8 (1928): 178-89.

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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, smuggling, Latin America, South America, Spanish colonial area , commerce, trade, business

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Brown, Vera L. "The South Sea Company and the Contraband Trade." AHR, 31 (July 1926): 662-78.

Categories:

commerce; smuggling; trade;

Keywords:

smuggling, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, commerce, trade, business

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Brown, W.M. "Scientists and the Admiralty: Conflict and Collaboration in Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1914-1921." Ph.D. diss, London, King's College, 1987. (ASLIB 48-5311).

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, world war 1, first world war, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, tactics, sea power, science , Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, anti-submarine warfare, submarine, ASW, sonar

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Brown, Warwick M. "Avoiding the U-Boats: The Clyde-Forth Oil Pipeline." MM, 90 (November 2004): 427-37. Avoidance scheme.

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, oil , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, U-boat, submarine, German underwater warship

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Brown, Warwick M. "The Royal Navy's Fuel Supply, 1898-1939: The Transition from Coal to Oil." Ph.D. diss, London, King's College, 2003. (ASLIB 54-5241).

Keywords:

20th century, twentieth, world war 1, first world war, technology, advance, modernization, modernisation, oil , coal, propulsion, coaling, collier, to coal ship , propulsion , Royal Navy, Britain, England

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Brown, Wilburt S. Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: A Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans. Tuscaloosa: Alabama UP, 1969, 2005, xii, 233 pp.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, amphibious, invasion from sea, landing, attack from sea, landing craft, america, United States, US, U.S., 13 colonies, thirteen, War of 1812, Anglo-American war, England, Britain, America, United States, US, USA, impressment, battle, frigate action, campaign, blockade

Abbreviations
AHR American Historical Review
Alb Albion
alt alternate
Am Nep American Neptune
AQ & DJ Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
ASLIB Association of Libraries (Dissertations & Master's Theses)
BIHR Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Can His Rev Canadian Historical Review
Can J His Canadian Journal of History
comp Compiled by
DAI Dissertation Abstracts International
EcHR Economic History Review
ed editor or edited by
EnHR English Historical Review
HisAHR Hispanic American Historical Review
HJ Historical Journal (Cambridge Historical Journal)
His Res Historical Research
His Tod History Today
Intell & Nat Sec Intelligence and National Security
IJ Mar His International Journal of Maritime History
IJ Nau Arch International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
IHR International History Review
intro introduction
J Am His Journal of American History
J Asian His Journal of Asian History
JBS Journal of British Studies
J Cont His Journal of Contemporary History
J Econ His Journal of Economic History
JI & CH Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
J Mar Res Journal for Maritime Research
J Mil His Journal of Military History
J Mod His Journal of Modern History
JRUSI Journal of the Royal United Service Institution or Institute
J Soc His Journal of Social History
JSAHR Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
J Stra Stu Journal of Strategic Studies
J Trans His Journal of Transport History
J Wor His Journal of World History
MM Mariner's Mirror
Mil Aff Military Affairs
NHS Naval History Symposium (USNA)
NMM National Maritime Museum
Nav Rev Naval Review
NWCR Naval War College Review (US)
Nel Dis Nelson Dispatch
NIP Naval Institute Press
Nor Mar Northern Mariner
Pac His Rev Pacific Historical Review
P & P Past and Present
Traf Chron Trafalgar Chronicle
trans translated by
UP University Press
USNIP Proceedings of the Naval Institute
Vic Stu Victorian Studies
War & Soc War and Society
War in His War in History
W&MQ William and Mary Quarterly
WSS World Ship Society

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