Maritime Empires

Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83076-4

Price:  £50.00

Maritime Enterprise and Empire

This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's largest maritime and mercantile conglomerate, tracing the history of the various shipping firms within the group - including the British India, Netherlands India and Australasian United companies - and identifies the key factors behind its domination of coastal steamshipping around the Indian Ocean and into the western Pacific.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15935-5

Price:  £75.00

Port Books of Boston, 1601-1640

The introduction deals with customs administration and trade at Boston, and with port books as historical sources.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50322-0

Price:  £25.00

The Customs Accounts of Newcastle upon Tyne 1454-1500

All thirteen of the extant Controller's accounts from the period 1454-1500 are included. These supply a record of the customs and subsidies on exports and imports. Each account is provided with a short introduction discussing the physical appearance of the membranes and the accounts.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44059-7

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The Life and Family of Robert Large, mercer

Mayor of London 1439-1440, first employer of William Caxton. Robert Large's career followed a route from apprenticeship to membership of the influential Mercers Company, where he became warden. He developed trading activities overseas as a merchant of the Calais staple, emerging as a ship-owner able to make substantial loans to the Crown.   Paperback   ISBN 978-0-9546812-2-7

Price:  £12.00

The Overseas Trade of Boston in the Reign of Richard II

In the fourteenth century, Boston was not only the outport for the major city of Lincoln, but one of the largest and wealthiest English towns in its own right; but because the townsmen of medieval Boston lacked formal powers of self-government there is no local borough archive for the period before its incorporation in 1545.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50374-9

Price:  £30.00

The Worlds of the East India Company

Throws light on significant aspects of the Company's history. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY The English East India Company was one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed. It laid the foundations of the British Empire in South Asia and thus lies at the very heart of the interlinked histories of Britain and Asia.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83073-3

Price:  £16.99