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Book reviewed in this article:
Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: Volume 1 — Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset (Edition limited to 1000 of 10-volume series) RICHARD & BRIDGET LARN
Old Ironsides—The Rise, Decline & Resurrection of the USS Constitution THOMAS C. GILLMER; illustrations WILLIAM GILKERSON
The Sailing Navy List: all the Ships of the Royal Navy Built, Purchased and Captured, 1688–1860 DAVID LYON
Captain Cook's Endeavour (Conway's Anatomy of the Ship series) KARL HEINZ MARQUARDT
Navies and Nations: Warships, Navies and State Building in Europe and America, 1500–1860 JAN GLETE
Östersjöns Sjunkna Skepp. En Marinarkeologisk Tidsresa JOHAN RÖNNBY and JONATHAN ADAMS
Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models RON MCCARTHY
The Foundry: Excavations on Poole Waterfront 1986/7 DAVID R. WATKINS
Versunken in der Ostsee—Schiffe und Schätze auf dem Meeresgrund GÜNTER LANITZKI     

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British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1650–1859, DAVID J. HEPPER
'De Zeehond', een Groninger Tjalk Gebouwd in 1878, Vergaan in 1886 (in Dutch with an English summary) R. OOSTING and K. VLIERMAN
Archeologia Subacquea, Studi, Ricerche e Documenti, 1 PIER0 GIANFROTTA and PAOLA PELAGATTI (Eds)
I Vikingernes Kelvand (in Danish) SOREN VADSTRUP
Medieval Boat and Ship Timbers from Dublin, SEAN MCGRAIL
Tall Ships, Two Rivers, A. OSLER and A. BARROW
The Wreck Diver's Guide to Sailing Ship Artifacts of the 19th Century, DAVID LEIGH STONE
Sail's Last Century-The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830–1930 (no 8 in Conway's 'History of the BASIL GREENHILL Ship' series)
The History of the French Frigate 1650–1850 JEAN BOUDRIOT, trans. DAVID H. ROBERTS
The first Frigates: Nine-Pounder and Twelve-Pounder Frigates 1748–1815 ROBERT GARDINER
Mersey Flats and Flatmen MICHAEL STAMMERS
Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly, RICHARD LARN     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Envisioning a Sustainable Society , by LESTER W. MILBRATH
Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World , by W.M. Adams
Capitalizing on the Information Economy: A New Approach to Regional Development by RODOLPHE H. LAMARCHE
The Struggle for Swazi Labour 1890–1920 by JONATHAN CRUSH
Processes Affecting the Spread of HIV Infection in Iceland by SIGRIDUR HARAL DSDOTTIR
Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor by J. DOUGLAS PORTEOUS     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000–1650 (History of the Ship Series). RICHARD W. UNGER (Ed.)
The Årby Boat. CARL OLOF CEDERLUND (Ed.)
Medieval Ships and Shipping (No. 3 in The Archaeology of Medieval Britain series). GILLIAN HUTCHINSON
Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 1991 (Oxbow Monograph 40). C. WESTERDAHL (Ed.)
Archaeonautica 11: L'épave D'Omonville-la-rouge (Manche) (pp 31–129). J. GUESNON
Zes Vatem Rundvlees mit het Scheepswrak Scheurrak S01 . J. T. ZEILER     

Book reviews

François Bougard, La justice dans le royaume d'Italie de la fin du VIIIe siècle au débutdu XIe siècle.
Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (eds), Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe.
Philippe Depreux, Prosopographie de l'entourage de Louis le Pieux (781–840).
Gunnar Karlsson, Iceland's 1100 Years. The History of a Marginal Society.
Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200.
Ralph W. Mathisen (ed), Law, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity.
Marco Mostert, 754: Bonifatius bij Dokkum vermoord.
Isabelle Réal, Vies des saints, vie de famille. Représentation et système de laparenté dans le Royaume mérovingien (481-751) d'après les sourceshagiographiques.
Translated and introduced by Hans van Rij, Alpertus van Metz, Gebeurtenissen van deze tijd. Een fragment over bisschop Diederik I van Metz. De mirakelen van de heilige Walburga in Tiel.
Adriaan Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy.
Ian W. Walker, Mercia and the Making of England.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History, Conservation and Display (Ships and Boats of the North: 4.1), OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN, OLAF OLSEN (Eds) III‐starred Captains—Flinders and Baudin, ANTHONY J. BROWN Facing the Ocean. The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC‐AD 1500, BARRY CUNLIFFE Archaeology and Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (ICHR Monograph 1), HAMINSHU PRABHA RAY The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International Series 899), G. J. OLIVER, R. BROCK, T. J. CORNELL, S. HODKINSON (Eds) Lost Warships: an archaeological tour of war at sea, JAMES P. DELGADO ‘A ship cast away about Alderney’—Investigation of an Elizabethan shipwreck, JASON MONAGHAN and, MENSUN BOUND (Eds) Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van Willemsspoortunnel te Rotterdam. Sluizen en schepen in de dam van de Rotte (BOO Rbalans 4, 2 vols), M. van TRIERUM, A. CARMIGGELT, A. J. GUIRAN (Eds) Schutz des Kulturerbes unter Wasser (IKUWA conference 1999 proceedings), CHRISTOPHER BÖRKER et al. (Eds) Construzione navale antica, PIER0 DELL'AMICO The Voyages of the Discovery: the illustrated history of Scott's ship, ANN SAVOURS Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History, DAVID M. YOUNG Deux siècles de constructions et chantiers navals (milieu XVIIe‐milieu XIXe) Proceedings of 124th Congrès des societés historiques et scientifiques, Nantes 1999), CHRISTIANE VILLAIN‐GANDOSSI (Ed.) Submarine Researches by C. A. Deane (1836), MICHAEL FARDELL & NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds.), JOHN BEVAN Naval Guns: 500 years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, HANS MEHL Lords of the East—the East India Company and its ships 1600–1874, JEAN SUTTON CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate raider, ANDREW BOWCOCK The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek, BARRY CUNLIFFE Trincomalee— the last of Nelson's frigates, ANDREW LAMBERT Galleons and Galleys (Cassel's History of Warfare Series), JOHN F. GUIIMARTIN Jr.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Versunkene Welten. Schiffe und Stadte auf dem Meeresgrund. Die Archaologie unter Wasser. GABRIELLE HOFFMAN
Mare nostrum. MICHEL REDDE
The Roman Quay at St Magnus House, London: Excavations at New Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street, London 1974–78. LOUISE MILLER, JOHN SCHOFIELD and. MICHAEL RHODES; edited byTONY DYSON
Roman London. JENNY HALL and RALPH MERRIFIELD
Discoveries. Compiled by HUGH CHAPMAN
Old docks (Shire Album 199). NANCY RITCHIE-NOAKES
Liverpool's historic waterfront. NANCY RITCHIE-NOAKES
Historic architecture of the Royal Navy. JONATHON COAD
The medieval Utrecht boat (BAR S383). ROBERTVLEK
Nautica Talmudica. DANIEL SPERBER
Willem de Vlamingh's explorations of Australia, 1696–1697. W. C. H. ROBERT
Australia unveiled. The share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia. G. G. SCHILDER
De Ontdekkingsreis van Willem Hesselsz. de Vlamingh in de Jaren 1696–169. G.G.SCHILDER
The voyage to the Great South Land, Willem de Vlamingh 1696–1697. G. G. SHILDER
The Royal Navy's first Invincible 1744-1758 The ship, the wreck and the recovery. BRIAN LAVERY
Historic ships. M. K. STAMMERS
Stratégies maritimes et économie. PAUL ADAM
The construction and fitting of the sailing man of war 1650–1850. PETER GOODWIN
The arming and fitting of English ships of war 1600–1815. BRIAN LAVERY
The 100-gun ship Victory . JOHN McKAY
King Herod's dream, Caesarea on the Sea. ROBERT J. BULL, AVNER RABAN, KENNETH G. HOLUM and. ROBERT L. HOHLFLENDER
Iron ships and steam shipwrecks (papers from the first Australian seminar on the management of iron vessels and shipwrecks). M. McCARTHY (ed.)
From merciless invaders—the defeat of the Spanish Armada (revised edition). A. McKEE
The campaign of the Spanish Armada. PETER KEMP     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Boats of the World—from the Stone Age to Medieval Times, SEAN M c GRAIL
War, Technology and Experience aboard the USS Monitor , DAVID A. MINDELL, JOHN BROADWATER
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade ( 2nd edition ), MARIA EUGENIA AUBET, LIONEL CASSON
England's Sea Fisheries: The Commercial Sea Fisheries of England and Wales since 1300, D. J. STARKEY, C. REID and, N. ASHCROFT (Eds), ADRIAN G. OSLER
The Bombay Country Ships 1790–1833, ANNE BULLEY, SEÁN M c GRAIL
The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait, YA'QUB YUSUF AL-HIJJI, DAVID GODDARD
The Vikings in Ireland, ANNE-CHRISTINE LARSEN (Ed.), JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL
The Lost City of Dvaraka, S. R. RAO, KENNETH M c PHERSON
Debating the Archaeological Heritage, ROBIN SKEATES, DELLA SCOTT-IRETON
The Lowland Wetlands of Cumbria ( NWW Survey no 6 ), D. HODGKINSON, E. HUCKERBY, R. MIDDLETON and, C. E. WELLS, R. W. COWELL
Medieval Naval Warfare 1000–1500, SUSAN ROSE, ERIC RIETH
The Wreck of the Belle —the Ruin of La Salle, ROBERT S. WEDDLE
Hin føroyski rórarbáturin: Sjómentir Fsroyingar I edri ti ( ASSF supplement XVVI ), ANDRAS MORTENSEN, MORTEN GØTHCHE
Maritime Tel Michal and Apollonia. Results of the 1989–1996 underwater survey ( BAR International Series 915 ), EVA GROSSMANN, CHERYL WARD
Warships of the Great Lakes, 1754–1834, ROBERT MALCOLMSON
Lords of the Lake—The Naval War on Lake Ontario, 1812–1814, ROBERT MALCOLMSON, ANDREW LAMBERT
Down the River to the Sea ( Eighth International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology, Gdansk 1997 ), JERZY LITWIN (Ed.), JEREMY GREEN     

Book reviews

John Carey, King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings
John Hines, A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches
Lloyd and Jennifer Laing, Early English Art and Architecture
Anna Ritchie (ed), Govan and its Early Medieval Sculpture
P.S. Barnwell, Kings, Courtiers and Imperium: the Barbarian West, 565–725.
Joseph Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought, 300–1450
Marcia L. Colish, Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400–1400
A.E. Leont'ev, Arkheologiia meri. K predystorii Severo-Vostochnoi Rusi (The Archaeology of the Merya)
Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe (eds), Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson
R. Künzel, The Forgotten Side of the Low Countries' Social History, 7th–13th centuries. Beelden en zelfbeelden van middeleeuwse mensen. Historisch-antropologische studies over groepsculturen in de Nederlanden, 7de–13de eeuw
Emma Cownie, Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066–1135.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Rising Tide—Archaeology and Coastal Landscape, ALAN ABERG & CARENZA LEWIS (Eds)
Exploitation and Management of Marshland Landscapes in North West Europe: the Transformation of Coastal Wetlands during Roman and Medieval Periods, STEPHEN RIPPON, TIMM WESKI
Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth century portraits by Balthazar Solvyns, ROBERT L. HARDGRAVE Jr., BASIL GREENHILL
Sacred and Secular: Ancient Egyptian Ships and Boats ( AIA Monographs, New Series 5 ), CHERYL WARD, DILWYN JONES
Seafaring and Civilization: Maritime Perspectives on World History, PHILIP de SOUZA, SARAH ARENSON
Fundert Ostsee—Eine maritim-archäologische Zeitreise entlung der deutschen Ostseeküste, MAIK-JENS SPRINGMANN, WALDEMAR OSSOWSKI
The Art and Archaeology of Venetian Boats and Ships ( Studies in Nautical Archaeology no. 5 ), LILLIAN RAY MARTIN, RICHARD BARKER
Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. (Proceedings of a Conference at Somerville College, Oxford, 29th May, 1999), SEAN KINGSLEY, MICHAEL DECKER (Eds), CHERYL WARD
Raising the Dead: the Skeleton Crew of King Henry VIII's Great Ship, the Mary Rose , A. J. STIRLAND, COLIN MARTIN
A History of the Confederate Navy, RAIMONDO LURAGHI, ANDREW LAMBERT
The Piraeus, from the fifth to the first century BC, ROBERT GARLAND, DAVID BLACKMAN
Maritime Scotland, BRIAN LAVERY, COLIN MARTIN
A Dictionary of the World's Watercraft from Aak to Zumbra , THE MARINERS' MUSEUM, OWAIN T. P. ROBERTS
Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks, J. RICHARD STEFFY, ERIC RIETH
Deutsche Binnentankschiffahrt 1887–1994, INGO HEIDBRINK, ARVID GÖTTLICHER
Das Schiff von Mahdia im Licht Moderner Natur—und Technikwissenschaft, WILFRED STECHER, CHERYL WARD
Gestrandet bei Uelvesbüll: Wrackarchäologie in Nordfriesland, HANS JOACHIM KÜHN, FREDERICK M. HOCKER     

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Caesarea Maritima. A Retrospective after Two Millennia, AVNER RABAN and K. G. HOLLUM (Eds)
Schopper und Zillen, JENNY SARRAZIN and ANDRE VAN HOLK
Atlas over Fyns kyst i jernalder, vikingetid og middelalder, O. CRUMLIN-PEDERSEN et al.
'The Infernal Diver'
Archaologie unter Wasser: Forschungen und Berichte zur Unterwasserarchäologie zwischen Alpenrand-Seen und Nordmeer
Deepwater Archaeology. A Late-Roman Ship from Carthage and an Ancient Trade Route near Skerki Bank off Northwest Sicily
Drie schcpcn uit de lat middeleeuwen: Opgravingsverslagen 2, 3, 4 (Flevobericht 166). Vier werschuiten uit de zeventiende eeuw: Opgravingsverslagen 8, 9, 10 en 11 (Flevobericht 235)
Nelson's Battles: The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail
Sea Battles in Close-up: The Age of Nelson
Nelson's Favourite: HMS Agamemnon at War, 1781–1809
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
Navales du Bas Danube et de la Mer Noire au ler-6ème Siècles ( Colloquia Pontica 2 ), OCTAVIAN BOUNEGRU and MIHAIL ZAHARIADE     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery ( Peleus 6 ), MICHAEL WEDDE, CHERYL WARD
Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology in the Welsh Severn Estuary ( CBA Research Report 120 ), MARTIN BELL, ASTRID CASELDINE, MEIKE NEUMANN VERY AN HEAL
Iron and Steamship Archaeology—Success and Failure on the Xantho (Plenum no. 4 ), Michael McCarthy
Experience of the Boat—the Wooden Shipbuilding Heritage of Croatia, V. SALAMON (Ed.), RICHARD BARKER
Ancient shipwrecks of the Adriatic: maritime transport during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD ( BAR International series 828 ), M. JURIŠI, A. J. PARKER
Shipbuilding and Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 18th and 19th Centuries. ( Proceedings of a conference held on Chios 1994 ), KOSTAS A. DAMIANIDIS (Ed), RICHARD BARKER
Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 22 (1999), UWE SCHNALL, URSULA FELDKAMP and ERIK HOOPS (Eds) M. K. STAMMERS
Sailing Ships: Designs and Re-creations, COLIN MUDIE, N. BURNINGHAM
The Tudor Navy 1485–1603: The Ships, Men and Organization, ARTHUR NELSON, DAVID LOADES
A Demonstration of the Diving Engine by Jacob Rowe, MICHAEL FARDELL and, NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds), RICHARD BARKER
The Role of the Physical Environment in Ancient Greek Seafaring ( Mnemosyne Supplements 213 ), JAMIE MORTON, CHERYL WARD
A Maritime Fortress—The Collections of the Wynn Family at Belan Fort c . 1750–1950, MICHAEL STAMMERS, OWAIN T. P. ROBERTS
Altonas Blützeit und ihr jähes Ende—Die reederei Hinrich Dultz 1756–1807 ( Band 52 ), DAGMAR JESTRZEMSKI, M. K. STAMMERS
L'épave de Port Berteau II (Charente Maritime): un caboteur fluvio-maritime du haut Moyen Age et son contexte nautique, ERIC RIETH, CATHERINE CARRIERRE-DESBOIS and VIRGINIE SERNA RICHARD BARKER
Kleine bootjes en middeleeuws scheepshout met constructie details ( English summary ) KAREL VLIERMAN, FREDERICK M. HOCKER     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Benjamin Arnold, Power and Property in Medieval Germany: Economic and Social Change, c.900–1300
Wendy Davies (ed.), From the Vikings to the Normans
Philippe Depreux and Bruno Judic (eds), Alcuin: De York à Tours: Écriture, pouvoir et réseaux dans l'Éurope du haut moyen âge
Richard Hodges, William Bowden and Kosta Lako (eds), Byzantine Butrint: Excavations and Surveys, 1994–99
Laura Napran and Elisabeth van Houts (eds), Exile in The Middle Ages: Selected Proceedings from the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8–11 July 2002
Catherine E. Karkov, The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England
A.H. Merrills (ed.), Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa
Gerhard Schmitz, De presbiteris criminosis. Ein Memorandum Erzbischof Hinkmars von Reims über straffÅllige Kleriker
Kathryn Starkey, Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm
Jonathan Wilcox (ed.), Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout     

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Geography, Technology, and War—Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean 649–1571, JOHN H. PRYOR
The Seventy-four Gun Ship Vol. 4 JEAN BOUDRIOT (translated by David Roberts)
Ships and shipwrecks of the Americas. A history based on underwater archaeology G. F. BASS (Ed.)
Seesturm und Schiftbruch. Eine motivgeschichtliche Studie. SABINE MERTENS
Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, S. R. RAO, Ed.
Le Cerf(cutter of 1779) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI (English translation by H. Bartlett Wells)
Le Coureur (lugger of 1776) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI
Innovation in Shipping and Trade STEPHEN FISHER, Ed.
Florida Archaeology no 4,1988: Gold Coins of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet-a numismatic study of the State of Florida Collection ALAN K. GRAIG with Appendix by FRANCIS KEITH
Historique de la Corvette 1650–1850: Monographie La Criole 1827 JEAN BOUDRIOT
The 32-Guo Frigate Essex PORTIA TAKAKJIAN
Ceramic Excavation Sites in Southeast Asia-a Preliminary Gazeteer JOHN S. GUY
Upchurch and Thameside Roman pottery: a ceramic typology for northern Kent, fist to third centuries A.D. JASON MONAGHAN
A Naval Expositor T. R. BLANCKLEY
Sternstunden der Schiffsarchiiologie PETER BAUMANN     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–1588. By Ciaran Brady.
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. By Michael P. Zuckert.
Lords of the Ascendancy. The Irish House of Lords and its Members 1600–1800. By Francis G. James.
Oliver Cromwell. By Peter Gaunt.
British Parliamentary Lists, 1660–1800. A Register. Edited by G. M. Ditchfield, David Hayton and Clyve Jones.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1710. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1790. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
Lords of Parliament. Studies, 1714–1914. Edited by R. W. Davis.
The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785. By Kathleen Wilson.
British 'Non-Elite' MPs, 1715–1820. By Ian R. Christie.
The Patriot Opposition to Walpole. Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742. By Christine Gerrard.
The Birth of Romantic Radicalism: War, Popular Politics and English Radical Reformism 1800–15. By Peter Spence.
Henry Brougham and his World: A Biography. By Trowbridge H. Ford.
Modern Wales. Politics, Places and People. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830–1886. By T. A. Jenkins.
A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between September 1869 and March 1878. Edited by John Vincent.
The Age of Upheaval. Edwardian Politics 1899–1914. By David Brooks.
A Lonely Grave: The Life and Death of William Redmond. By Terence Denman.
Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940–1941. By Sheila Lawlor.
England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in the 1940s. By Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Quantitative Geography: A British View , edited by N. W rigley and R.J. B ennett
Partners in Furs: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay, 1600–1870 , by D aniel F rancis and T oby M orantz
Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada , by C arl B erger
Arctic and Antarctic: A Modern Geographical Synthesis , by D avid S ugden
Heartland and Hinterland: A Geography of Canada , edited by L.D. McCann     

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English Maps: A History. By Catherine Delano‐Smith and Roger J. P. Kain. London: The British library, 1999. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. ISBN 0 7123 4609 0 (cloth); 0 7123 4660 0 (paper). Pp. xiv, 320, illus., col. plates. STG£25.00 (cloth).

Abraham Ortelius and the First Atlas: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death, 1598–1998. Edited by Marcel van den Broecke, Peter van der Krogt and Peter Meurer. Utrecht: HES Publishers, 1998. ISBN 90 6194 388 4. Pp. 430, illus.,. 19 col. plates. DFL371.00(cloth).

A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600–1834. By Anthony Farrington. London: The British Library, 1999. ISBN 0 7123 4647 3. Pp. 886. STG£85.00 (cloth).

Catalogue of East India Company Ships’ Journals and Logs 1600–1834. By Anthony Farrington. London: The British Library, 1999. ISBN 0 7123 4646 5. Pp. 789. STG£85.00 (doth).

Ordnance Survey Small‐Scale Maps: Indexes: 1801–1998. By Roger Hellyer. Kerry, Newtown, Montgomeryshire: David Archer, 1999. ISBN 0951757954. Pp. xxiv, 264, illus. STG£35.00 (cloth). [David Archer, Kerry, Wales SY16 . 4PD.]     

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Books reviewed: G. F. BASS, S. D. MATTHEWS, J. R. STEFFY, and F. H. VAN DOORNINCK Jr, Serçe Liman?: an Eleventh‐Century Shipwreck. Volume I: The Ship and its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers YAACOV KAHANOV and ELISHA LINDER, The Ma’agan Mikhael Ship. The Recovery of a 2400‐Year‐Old Merchantman. Final Report Volume II HORST NOWACKI, Archimedes and Ship Stability HORST NOWACKI and LARRIE D. FERREIRO, Historical Roots of the Theory of Hydrostatic Stability of Ships SIMON HILLSON, Teeth VICKI CUMMINGS and CHRIS FOWLER (eds), The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: Materiality and Traditions of Practice JOHAN HENRIK SCHREINER, Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet ALEC TILLEY, Seafaring on the Ancient Mediterranean: New Thoughts on Triremes and Other Ancient Ships DAVID J. P. MASON, Roman Britain and the Roman Navy R. A. HOUSLEY and G. COLES (eds), Atlantic Connections and Adaptations. Economies, Environments and Subsistence in Lands Bordering the North Atlantic JOHAN RÖNNBY (ed.), By the Water: Archaeological Perspectives on Human Strategies around the Baltic Sea ANGELO FORTE, RICHARD ORAM, and FREDERIK PEDERSEN, Viking Empires JOHN HINES, ALAN LANE and MARK REDKNAP (eds), Land Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking Period Settlement BENJAMIN HUDSON, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic GREGORY G. MONKS (ed.), The Exploitation and Cultural Importance of Sea Mammals UWE SCHALL, URSULA FELDKAMP, ERIK HOOPS, Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv No. 26 (2003) PATRICE POMEY and ÉRIC RIETH, L’Archéologie Navale FRANCISCO CONTENTE DOMINGUES, Os Navios do Mar Oceano. Teoria e Empiria na Arquitectura Naval Portuguesa dos séculos XVI e XVII FILIPE VIEIRA de CASTRO, The Pepper Wreck: a Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River ALEX HILDRED (ed.), Report on the Excavation of the Dutch East Indiaman Vliegent Hart JOHN ROBSON, The Captain Cook Encyclopaedia MYRA STANBURY and JEREMY GREEN (eds), Lapérouse and the Loss of the Astrolabe and the Boussole (1788): Reports of the 1986 and 1990 Investigations of the Shipwrecks at Vanikoro, Solomon Islands MICHEL DAEFFLER, Formes de Carène et Navires de Combat: L’invention du Vaisseau de Ligne en Angleterre (1560–1642) NICHOLAS BLAKE, Steering to Glory: a Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line SPENCER TUCKER, Stephen Decatur—‘A Life Bold and Daring’ SARAH C. WOLFE, Naval Edged Weapons in the Age of Fighting Sail 1775–1865 RICHARD TUFFIN, GREG JACKMAN and JULIA CLARK (eds), A Harbour Large Enough to Admit a Whole Fleet: The Maritime History and Archaeology of Port Arthur ALASTAIR R. WALKER, Stroma Yoles: their construction and development JANE DOWNES and ANNE RITCHIE, Sea Change: Orkney and Northern Europe in the Later Iron Age AD 300–600 MARINELLA PASQUINUCCI and TIMM WESKI, Close Encounters: Sea‐ and Riverborne Trade, Ports and Hinterlands, Ship Construction and Navigation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and in Modern Time KLAUS BRAND and HANS JOACHIM KÜHN, Der Prahm aus dem Hafen von Haithabu. Beiträge zu Antiken und Mittelalterlichen Flachbodenschiffen JAMES DODDS and JAMES MOORE, Building the Wooden Fighting Ship     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Bernard S. Bachrach, Early Carolingian Warfare. Prelude to Empire
Warren Brown, Unjust Seizure: Conflict, Interest, and Authority in an Early Medieval Society Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
James McKinnon, The Advent Project. The Later–Seventh–Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper
Richard Newhauser, The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
Walter Pohl, Die Germanen (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, vol. 57)
Birgit Sawyer, The Viking–Age Rune–Stones: Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia
Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg (eds), Literary Appropriations of the Anglo–Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
Seiichi Suzuki, The Quoit Brooch Style and Anglo–Saxon Settlement: A Casting and Recasting of Cultural Identity Symbols
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