International Journal of Maritime History

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Risky Business: The database of insurance prices (circa 1400 to circa 1900)

Go, Sabine; Iodice, Antonio; Ceccarrelli, Giovanni

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231202387

The Risky Business database is a newly created database that contains information regarding insurance contracts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century from markets in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The database, which is accessible to everyone, is populated with data from...

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Book Review: Gunboats, Empire and the China Station: The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia by Matthew Heaslip

Reinhart, Christopher

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231194531

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Book Review: Art and the Sea by Emma Roberts

Sutherland, Claire

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231202344

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Coda: Risk and uncertainty in the past and present

Hope, Mallory; Wade, Lewis; Dreijer, Gijs

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231164505

This coda takes stock of the articles in the forum and subsequently draws some lessons from the articles on the question of how to deal with risk and uncertainty in the present. It argues that looking at how risk and uncertainty were perceived and dealt with in the early modern world allows one...

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Book Review: Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea by Tirza Meyer

Ryan, Barry J.

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231202168

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The power of fishing: The introduction of steam and motorization in Scandinavian fishing, 1880–1950

Hallén, Per; Bornmalm, Lennart; Alexandersson, Henrik

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231178144

The history of fishing has often been written from a local or regional perspective. There has gradually been a shift where fishing has been studied from a broader international perspective. Nevertheless, large international overviews need detailed studies of individual ports in a similar way as...

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Book Review: The War of Jenkins’ Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America, 1739–1742

Satsuma, Shinsuke

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231194533

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Book Review: Greek Maritime History: From the Periphery to the Centre by Katerina Galani and Alexandra Papadopoulou, eds.

Gauci, Liam

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231205642

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Swedish sailor songs, popular culture and maritime national identities, 1918–1960

Arnstad, Henrik

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231197964

In twentieth-century Sweden, conventional inland nationalism was challenged by strong currents of maritime national identities. The reason was a national frenzy regarding maritime popular music – primarily, songs about Swedish sailors and their adventures in exotic faraway lands. Throughout the...

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High seas and hard drinks: Alcohol rations on Dutch vessels

Jarvis, Charlotte

2023 International Journal of Maritime History

doi:10.1177/08438714231169817

How valid is the historical reputation of drunken sailors? On board Dutch vessels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how much alcohol was really being issued at a time when the Dutch were perhaps the most intensely maritime nation in Europe? Were Dutch sailors, therefore, exceptional in...

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