Bøger i Exeter Maritime Studies serien

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering therefore represented a business opportunity to the maritime community, a chance to acquire instant wealth at the enemy's expense;

The first comprehensive study of the emergence of Devon's seaside resorts. Relating the development of these resorts to the wider processes of social and economic change, it explains why early tourists were drawn to the remote Devon coast and shows how fishing villages were transformed into fashionable watering places.

This book examines how the principal British maritime industries - shipping, shipbuilding and ports - adapted, or failed to adapt, to a changing world in the period 1918 to 1990, and discusses their reactions to the great opportunities seemingly offered by offshore oil and gas from the mid-1960s.

Few industries attest to the decline of Britain's political and economic power as does the near disappearance of British shipbuilding.

Leisure studies have become an increasingly important area of research within social history. In six original essays and an Introduction by established historians, RECREATION AND THE SEA focuses on the theme of the sea and leisure activities in England and Continental Europe.

Sir George Cockburn was the most influential serving officer in the politics of the British navy in the nineteenth century.

Man and the Maritime Environment is the ninth volume to be published in the now well-established series Exeter Maritime Studies which aims to investigate and interpret not only the British maritime past but also the European and international topics from the earliest times to the contemporary world.