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Antill, Peter D. Crete 1941: Germany's Lightning Airborne Assault. Campaign Series, # 147. Oxford: Osprey, 2005, 96 pp. Illus: Howard Gerrard.

Keywords:

Anglo-German, Germany, Prussia , aviation, aircraft, airplane, plane, naval aviation, carrier aviation, invasion, armada, landing , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Royal Navy, Britain, England, world war 2, second world war

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Antonov, A.M. "The Birth of Red October." USNIP, 121 (December 1995): 79-81. Late 1950s; K-5 November Class Soviet nuclear submarine.

Keywords:

Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , cold war, intelligence, code breaking, espionage, counter-intelligence, Secret Service, SIGINT , nuclear , nautical fiction, sea fiction , submarine, underwater vessel, submerged operation, propulsion

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Antony, Robert J. Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China. China Research Monograph Series, # 56. Berkeley: Calfornia UP, 2003, xi, 198 pp.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-Chinese, China, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence

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Antony, Robert J. "Pacification of the Seas: Qing Anti-Piracy Policies in Guangdon, 1794-1810." J Oriental Studies, 32 (1994): 16-35.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Chinese, China, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer

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Antony, Robert J. Pirates in the Age of Sail. New York: Norton, 2007, vii, 201 pp. Sourcebook.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, age of sail, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, naval guide, regulation, guideline, instruction

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Antony, Robert J. "Pirates, Bandits, and Brotherhoods: A Study of Crime and Law in Kwangtung Province, 1796-1839." Ph.D. diss, Hawaii, 1988.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Chinese, China, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, law, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer

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Antony, Robert J. "Sea Bandits of the Canton Delta, 1780-1839." IJ Mar His, 17 (December 2005): 1-29. Piracy, ubiquitious & pervasive in South China Sea.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, Anglo-Chinese, China, Far East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer

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Antscherl, David. Fully Framed Model, HMN Swan Class Sloops, 1767-1780. Piermont: Pier, 2005, 301 pp.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, model, ship model, model building , ship, boat, vessel, Royal Navy, Britain, England, auxiliary

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Antunes, Catia & Hattendorf, John B. "Chartered Companies: Iberian, World and Northern Europe." See J. Hattendorf, Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, I., pp. 391-94.

Keywords:

age of sail, Anglo-Dutch, Netherlands, Low Country, Holland, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Portuguese, Portugal , company, charter, shipping, commercial , East India Company, charter company, Raj , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Antunes, Catia & Sicking, Louis. "Ports on the Border of the State, 1200-1800: An Introduction." IJ Mar His, 19 (December 2007): 273-86. Forum: International Conference on Urban History; continuity & change, ports, middle ages.

Keywords:

15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , maritime history, naval history , port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot , trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing, middle ages (400-1399), age of sail

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Apestegui, Cruz. Pirates of the Caribbean: Buccaneers, Privateers, Freebooters and Filibusters, 1493-1720. London: Conway, 2002, 233 pp. Folio, lavishly illustrated.

Keywords:

15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-Dutch, Netherlands, Low Country, Holland, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Appelbaum, Robert & Sweet, John Wood, eds. Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 2005, xv, 368 pp. Essays, some cited; from NEH Summer Institute, Jamestown in the Atlantic World; 400th anniversary of founding of Jamestown.

Keywords:

18th century, eighteenth, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , enterprise, commerce, trade, business, economy, economic , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , Colonial America, colony, colonial, colonial period, colonial navy, New England , Jamestown, colony, colony of Virginia, early settlement , colonialism, colony

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Appelbe, Michael Mawdsley. "Personal Account of Trafalgar: Vice Admiral William Stanhope Lovell." Nel Dis, 9 (January 2006): 34-41. From HMS Neptune.

Keywords:

age of sail, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, Royal Navy, Britain, England, memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography

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Appleby, John C. & O'Dowd, Mary. "The Irish Admiralty: Its Organisation and Development, c. 1570-1640." Irish Historical Studies, 24 (May 1985): 299-326. Admiralty Court; expansive growth.

Keywords:

16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-Irish, Ireland, Eire, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , high court admiralty

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Appleby, John C. & Starkey, David. "The Records of the High Court of the Admiralty as a Source for Maritime History." See D. Starkey, Sources for a New Maritime History of Devon, pp. 70-86.

Keywords:

Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, high court admiralty, maritime history, naval history , law

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Appleby, John C. "A 'Voyage to Greenland for the Catching of Whales': English Whaling Enterprise in the Seventeenth Century." IJ Mar Hist, 9 (December 1997): 29-49. Source: High Court of Admiralty; Muscovy Company.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-Russian, Russia, tsarist, czarist, Soviet , company, charter, shipping, commercial , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , voyage, whaling, whale, whaleship, whaler, fishing

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Appleby, John C. "A Nursery of Pirates: The English Pirate Community in Ireland in the Early Seventeenth Century." IJ Mar Hist, 2 (June 1990): 1-27. End of Spanish War, 1603. meant shift to piracy.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-Irish, Ireland, Eire, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Appleby, John C. "A Pathway Out of Debt: The Privateering Activities of Sir John Hippisley during the Early Stuart Wars with Spain and France, 1625-1630." Am Nep, 49 (Fall 1989): 251-61. 20 ships operating from Dover.

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Appleby, John C. "Devon Privateering from Early Times to 1688." See M. Duffy, New Maritime History of Devon, I., pp. 90-97.

Keywords:

15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, smuggling, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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Appleby, John C. "English Privateering during the Spanish and French Wars, 1625-1630." Ph.D. diss, Hull, 1983, 734 pp. Under K.R. Andrews; (ASLLIB 33-2494).

Keywords:

17th century, seventeenth, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , piracy, privateering, pirate, buccaneer, trade, commerce, exchange, commercial relation, commercial dealing

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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