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Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or without the law. This book focuses on the character of pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies and China, and on the scale and significance of privateering operations based in the principal European maritime states.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Seven Years War was the most successful in British History, with naval supremacy triumphantly asserted over France and Spain, and a vast new overseas empire conquered. This book tells the story of the British shipping that carried, supplied and sustained the British expeditions that shattered French and Spanish imperial power in America.

Explores the naval campaign from both British and French perspectives, setting it in its wider context of the war strategy of the rival powers. This title traces the impact of the battle on public imagination by discussing plays, print, paintings, artefacts and memorials.

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;