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Abranson, Erik. Sailors of the Great Sailing Ships. Macdonald Living History Series. London: Macdonald, 1977, 1978, 61 pp. Illus: Edward Mortelmans; trans (F); juvenile literature.
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age of sail, seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence , ship, boat, vessel
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Abulafia, David. A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994, xxii, 292 pp. Leader of European maritime activity; opened routes to Atlantic.
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age of sail; Atlantic World; commerce; expansion; Mediterranean Sea;
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age of sail, commerce, trade, business, expansion, colony, colonies, colonization, colonisation, imperialism, domination, hegemony , Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean theater, Mediterranean command , Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence
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Abulafia, David. The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008, 408 pp.
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15th C. (1400-1499); 16th C. (1500-1599); age of sail; Atlantic World; exploration;
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age of sail, Atlantic World, British domination, British North America, culture, influence , 15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure
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Acerra, Martine & Meyer, Jean. Marines et Revolution. Rennes: Quest-France, 1988, 285 pp. General history.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; maritime history; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, Anglo-French, France , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, maritime history, naval history
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Adam, Frank. Henscherin der Meere: Die Britische Flotte zur Zeit Nelson. Hamburg: Koehlers, 1998, 345 pp. Early version of next entry.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , Nelson, Horatio, historian, history, historical, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adam, Frank. Hornblower, Bolitho and Company: Krieg unter Segeln in Roman und Geschichte. Frankfort: Ullstein, 1987, 1992, 204 pp. Survey of nautical fiction concentrating on Royal Navy, 1775-1815; Forester, Hardy, Kent, Parkinson, Pope, Woodman, Maynard, O'Brian, Styles, Forrest, Meacham & Meredith; tables of time periods when fictional seamen operated.
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age of sail; historian; nautical fiction; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, nautical fiction, sea fiction , historian, history, historical, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adams, Bill. Ships and Memories: The Story ot the Years the Author Spent on the Four-Masted Barque Silberborn, Running to Oregon and San Francisco as Told in His Famous Book, Ships and Women which Is Reproduced in Full. . . . with 150 Photographic Illustrations of Ships He Knew 40 Pen-and-Ink Sketches by W.M. Birchall. Brighton, 1975, xxx, 449 pp. Out of Liverpool.
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19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; art; memoir; ship; voyage;
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age of sail, art, painting, painter, artistic, design , memoir, recollection, journal, autobiography , voyage, ship, boat, vessel, 19th century, nineteenth
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Adkin, Mark. The Trafalgar Companion: The Complete Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. London: Aurum; Ithaca: McBooks, 2005, 560 pp. Folio, 200 illustrations; for Nelson, coverage of Calvi, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, the funeral & memorials; descriptive, not analytical; not scholarly; earlier, The Waterloo Companion, 2001.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; memorial; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, memorial, heritage, tradition, bicentennial , Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Adkins, Roy & Adkins, Lesley. Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy. London: Little Brown, 2008, xxiv, 429 pp. Excellent maps & illustrations, though little link to commentary; covered 1770-1815; introductory level, emphasis on geneology; exaggerated "bad" conduct & "miserable" life, as, earlier, had John Masefield.
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age of sail; condition; literature; Nelson, Horatio; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , age of sail, Nelson, Horatio, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, literature, culture
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Adkins, Roy & Adkins, Lesley. The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo. London: Little Brown; New York: Viking; London: Abacus, 2006, 2007, xxvi, 534 pp. Social history approach, incorporating songs, poems, pamphlets; conclusion: "ultimately the war against Napoleon was won by the officers and men of the British Navy."
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Admiralty; age of sail; Anglo-French; battles; Napoleon; Nelson, Horatio; officer; Royal Navy; sea power; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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age of sail, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, Anglo-French, France , battles, Napoleon, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, Egyptian Campaign, St. Helena, exile, prisoner under British , Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, officer, quarterdeck, leader , sea power
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Adkins, Roy. Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle. London: Little Brown; New York: Viking; New York: Penguin; London: Abacus, 2004, 2005, xxiv, 392 pp. Extensive coverage of preliminaries & battle; alternate title: Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle that Changed the World; eyewitness history at its best; invasion threat, e.g., 1st Ordnance Survey, Admiralty telegraph system, Martello Towers.
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age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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Anglo-French, France , Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia , battles, age of sail, Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France
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Admiralty of the United Kingdom. Admiralty Manual of Seamanship. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1908, 1909, 1954, `964, 1967, 1972, 1979, 1982, 1983, xxviii, 1684 pp.. Basic textbook of seamanship; I: basics, II: for promotion, III: advancement; various editions per volume.
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Admiralty; age of sail; naval guide; navigation; officer; seamanship;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, naval guide, regulation, guideline, instruction , navigation, navigate, longitude, latitude, officer, quarterdeck, leader , seamanship, seafaring, navigation, professional competence
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Admiralty of the United Kingdom. Report of a Committee Appointed by the Admiralty to Examine and Consider the Evidence Relating to the Tactics Employed by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. London: HMSO, 1913, xvi, 107 pp. Report of formal study committee set up in 1912; use of the literature, e.g., Desbriere, Corbett, Mahan, Laughton, Newbolt & James.
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Admiralty; age of sail; Anglo-French; Anglo-Spanish; battles; Nelson, Horatio; Royal Navy; tactics; Trafalgar; War of French Revolution and Napoleon;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, Anglo-French, France , battles, Nelson, Horatio, Royal Navy, Britain, England, tactics, Trafalgar, battle, campaign , War of French Revolution and Napoleon, France, Anglo-Spanish, Spain, Iberia
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Admiralty of the United Kingdom. The Admiralty List Books. A month by month track of every ship in commission, its commanding officer, lieutenants, complement, station; up to 1813.
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Admiralty; age of sail; naval guide; officer; Royal Navy; ship; ship of the line;
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Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, age of sail, officer, quarterdeck, leader , naval guide, regulation, guideline, instruction , Royal Navy, Britain, England, ship, boat, vessel, ship of the line, sailing battleship, first rate
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Aflalo, Frederick George. The Sea-Fishing Industry of England and Wales: A Popular Account of the Sea Fisheries and Fishing Ports of Those Countries. London: Edward Stanford, 1904, xx, 386 pp.
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18th C. (1700-1799); 19th C. (1800-1899); age of sail; age of steam; fishing; merchant marine; naval lore; port;
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18th century, eighteenth, 19th century, nineteenth, age of steam, age of sail, merchant marine, naval lore, tradition, oral tradition, sea story, sea term, naval dictionary , port, commercial center, seaport, trade center, entrepot , fishing, fishery, fish, herring, cod, trawling
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Agostini, Thomas. "'Deserted His Majesty's Service': Military Runaways, the British-American Press, and the Problem of Desertion during the Seven Years' War." J Social His, 40 (Summer 2007): 957-87. Over 2000 deserted.
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18th C. (1700-1799); age of sail; Anglo-American; condition; impressment; Royal Navy;
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18th century, eighteenth, Anglo-American, United States, US, USA, impressment, Royal Navy, Britain, England, condition, life below deck, lower deck, atmosphere, enlisted life , age of sail
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Alam, Muzaffar & Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007, xvi, 399 pp. Erudite & engaging.
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15th C. (1400-1499); 16th C. (1500-1599); 17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); age of sail; exploration; Indian Ocean; Middle East; voyage;
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15th century, fifteenth, 16th century, sixteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, 18th century, eighteenth, exploration, explore, explorer, discover, discovery, adventure , Indian Ocean, voyage, Middle East, age of sail
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Albert, Marvin H. Broadsides and Boarders: An Account of the Great Captains Who Fought with Cannon under Sail, and of Their Battles. London: Harrap; New York: Appleton-Century, 1957, 1958, x, 360 pp. 300 years of sailing ship warfare; Nelson as greatest commander; others Sea Beggars, Sea Dogs, Generals-at-Sea, Hawke, Suffren & Decatur.
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Admiralty; age of sail; battles; gunnery; Nelson, Horatio; officer; personality;
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age of sail, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, battles, leadership, leader, command, commander in chief , Nelson, Horatio, personality, prominent leader, noted person , gunnery, gun, weapon , officer, quarterdeck, leader
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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, ed. Exploration and Discovery. Main Themes in European History Series. New York: Macmillan, 1965, vii, 151 pp.
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17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); age of sail; exploration; navigation;
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Albion, Robert Greenhalgh. "Admiralty Prize Case Briefs: Notes and Questions." AHR, 33 (April 1928): 593-95. Albion, 1896-1972, longtime Harvard Professor.
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Admiralty; age of sail; High Court Admiralty; historian; law; prize;
Keywords:
age of sail, Admiralty, admiral, administration, organization, organisation, headquarters, Navy Board, Lords of the Admiralty, high court admiralty, prize, reward for service, monetary reward , law, historian, history, historical
| 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 |