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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Maritime History"”.
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Surgery at Sea: An Analysis of Shipboard Medical Practitioners and Their Instrumentation
Shipboard life has long been of interest to maritime history and archaeology researchers. Historical research into maritime medical practices, however, rarely uses archaeological data to support its claims. The primary objective of this thesis is to incorporate data sets from the medical …
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The language of the sea: a corpus driven examination of the influence of Britain's maritime tradition on standard English
Britain’s maritime history has fundamentally affected the English language as spoken and written throughout the English speaking world. Maritime expressions (MEs), such as “taken aback” “batten down” and “log” are used on a daily basis, usually without any awareness on the part of the user of their …
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Erinnern ist Frauensache? - Frauen als "Erinnerungsspeicher" in Tanja Dückers' Roman "Himmelskörper"
… of deaths caused by a single sinking ship in maritime history. For a long time, this catastrophe was considered a forgotten' topic, due to the complicated nature of remembering German wartime suffering without simultaneously mitigating the horrific crimes committed by the Germans during the …
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Formal fire safety assessment of passenger ships
… a major cause of ship's accidents throughout maritime history. It is by far the most serious threat to life and the environment as passenger ships get larger and more sophisticated. It is also impossible to protect a passenger vessel against all hazards. Despite the fact that a passenger ship …
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“IN STRANGER TIDES”: INTER-CULTURAL CONTACTS, CONTRACTS AND LEGALITIES IN EARLY MODERN MARITIME SOUTHEAST ASIA (1700-1850)
… Southeast Asia and attempts to reconstruct a history of international diplomacy from below. Even though maritime history of Southeast Asia has been a rich terrain of study, legal texts, and social rites of commerce that aided the expansion of maritime trade in early modern South-east Asia has …
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The humanitarian, technical and political response to shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century: the 1836 Inquiry and its aftermath
… 1.5m. There had been a devastating loss to the maritime strength of Britain since the close of the Napoleonic Wars.<br/><br/>The response to this on-going national disaster was slow but eventually emerged principally in three areas: humanitarian, technical and political. The humanitarian driven …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… to complete transactions. This thesis provides history with an interpretation of the records relating to the China-Australia trade. It engages the correspondence and financial records of of key companies like Jardine Matheson & Co. of England, Augustine Heard & Co. and Russell & Co. of the …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… to complete transactions. This thesis provides history with an interpretation of the records relating to the China-Australia trade. It engages the correspondence and financial records of of key companies like Jardine Matheson & Co. of England, Augustine Heard & Co. and Russell & Co. of the …
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Making the ocean : global space, sailor practice, and bureaucratic archives in the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire
… world as agents of the sixteenth-century Spanish maritime empire. The hard-won pragmatic and empirical expertise on which they relied developed in an uneasy tension with the priorities of the bureaucracy centered at the Casa de la Contratación in Seville. In the Atlantic, bureaucratic …
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Shackleford Banks: Applying Archaeological and Geospatial Approaches to Maritime Settlement and Abandonment
Shackleford Banks, North Carolina is a 14.5-kilometer barrier island that has not been permanently inhabited by humans in over a century. Before it was abandoned in the beginning of the 20th century, this island had been occupied since at least the mid-eighteenth century by European colonists. …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity …
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"Collecting and arranging...a history of the Globe": a reconsideration of the Salem East India Marine Society and Antebellum American Museology
… Chapter 1 traces the East India Marine Society's history while contextualizing their museum within the landscape of American collecting institutions in the first half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 2 provides an understanding of the origins and evolution of maritime charitable societies and …
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What’s in a World? Economic, political and cultural convergence across the medieval western Indian Ocean.
The study of the archaeology and history of the Indian Ocean littoral is often framed through the lens of the “Indian Ocean World”. This framework goes beyond the more traditional focus on political frontiers and land-based boundaries, conceptualising the sea as a sphere of connections, not as a …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
… World War II, including: 1) nineteenth century maritime ministry projects in the Port of New York that originated during the 1830s, in which merchant seamen and evangelical reformers confronted each other within Manhattan’s lower wards and engaged in contestations over sailors’ liberty, …
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A history of South Island whaling : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma of Parks and Recreation
… surviving shore station. My personal interest in history and commitment to the conservation of these creatures grew, throughout the project, and my hope is that the reader's interest will be held so that they too may develop a sense of responsibility towards these creatures, whilst realizing the …
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Materiality, identity and social positioning: The case of the Elbphilharmonie
… and the imagery associated with the city and its maritime history. The collection was inspired by male, professional and maritime themes, repositioning clothes formerly associated with harbor or trading activity as women’s fashion items. As the presentation of fashion items is an instance of …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… Wars (1793-1815). It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the political and diplomatic background, cultural and social integration, and the demographic characteristics of these …
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A Social and Economic History of the 1797 Fleet Mutinies at Spithead and The Nore
… drawn from social, economic, and cultural history. Using both quantitative and qualitative sources, I present a new interpretation of these momentous events that reveals the centrality of perceptions of fairness and ‘good usage’ to their causation, course, and legacy with implications for …