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Thank you so much for this warm welcome, Caroline! I'm excited to join the team and to help think of new ways that H-Maritime can be of service to those of us whose studies bring us into the waters!
Hello to everyone who follows H-Maritime! We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sara Rich has joined our editorial team. Sara is replacing Dr. Sundar Vadlamudi of the American University of Sharjah, whom we thank for more than three years of dedicated upkeep on the network.
Sara is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Nautical Archaeology at the HTC Honors College and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Coastal Carolina University. She is the author of 2017's Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships: Allure, Lore & Metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East (Oxford: Archeopress) and, most recently, of
Project Highlight
The Mediterranean Seminar announces the Mediterranean Syllabi Index - an open-access resource for instructors developing or teaching undergraduate and graduate courses relating to Mediterranean Studies topics in disciplines including History, Art History, Material Cultre, Archaeology, Literature and Language, Music, Culture and the Social Sciences. from Antiquity to the present
Dear Colleagues,
Hello! I am one of H-Maritime's newest crops of network editors, and I have very much enjoyed learning about the community that has gathered here over the last few months. This post is beginning one of what we hope will be a number of efforts to build a database of easily-accessible resources for the learning and teaching of maritime history here on H-Net: gathering the syllabi of courses which focus on maritime history or aspects of maritime life and culture as examples and resources for others, along the lines of similar resource pages hosted by networks including H-German, H
Waves Across the South is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Sujit Sivasundaram shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire to foreground a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea.
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Recent Reviews
Edward A. Alpers. The Indian Ocean in World History. New Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-533787-7; $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-516593-7.
Reviewed by Mahmood KOORIA (Leiden University Institute for History)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2018)
Commissioned by Donna Sinclair (Central Michigan University)
Joanne M. Ferraro. Venice: History of the Floating City. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Maps, illustrations. 310 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-60661-2.
Reviewed by Brian N. Becker (Delta State University)
Published on H-Maritime (May, 2018)
Commissioned by Donna Sinclair (Central Michigan University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=47534
Katherine Archibald. Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity. Originally published by University of California Press, 1947. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. lxxxii + 244 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07386-1.
Reviewed by Stephen Gilford (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Maritime (April, 2008)
Rosie Revisited
Ira Dye. Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii + 299 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3004-3.
Reviewed by Jennifer Speelman (Department of History, The Citadel)
Published on H-Maritime (January, 2008)
Trials and Tribulations of a Jewish Naval Officer