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Book reviewed in this article:
First aid for marine finds. WENDY S. ROBINSON
Merchant sailing ships, 1775-1815. DAVID R. MACGREGOR
The dhow, an illustrated history of the dhow and its world. CLIFFORD W. HAWKINS
Dhows. DAVID HOWARTH
The Northseamen. JOHN LEATHER
Coals from Newcastle. ROGER FINCH
The ship in the medieval economy, 600— 1600. RICHARD W. UNGER
The history of Dover harbour. ALEC HASENSON
West Coast shipping. M. K. STAMMERS
Wangka: Austronesian canoe origins. EDWIN DORAN
Rafts, boats and ships—from prehistoric times to the medieval era. SEAN McGRAIL     

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Ancient trade and society LIONEL CASSON
Underwater expeditions ROB PALMER
Vol. I. Merchant sailing ships 1775–1815: sovereignty of sail DAVID R. MACGREGOR
Vol. III. Merchant sailing ships 1850–1875: heyday of sail DAVID R. MACGREGOR
Sweet track to Glastonbury—the Somerset levels in prehistory BRYONY and JOHN COLES
Die Galeonen PETER KIRSCH
La grande époque de la marine à voile MARTINE ACERRA and JEAN MEYER
Argusgrunden—a 7000-year-old settlement on the sea-floor off south-east Denmark A. FISCHER, U. MØHL, P. BENNIKE, C. MALMROS. H. TAUBER, J. SCHOU HANSEN and P. SMED
La révolution maritime du XIXe. Sièle
Warrior —restoring the world's first ironclad ANDREW LAMBERT
The immortal Warrior —Britain's first and last battleship JOHN WELLS
Drawings of the USS Monitor —a catalog and technical analysis ERNEST W. PETERKIN
Ships, seafaring and society—essays in maritime history TIMOTHY J. RUNYAN
Sejlskibsssfolk (sailing ship people) OLE MORTENSØN     

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Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape by DENIS E. COSGROVE
The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America by JOHN A. JAKLE
An Introduction to Agricultural Geography by DAVID GRIGC
A Short History of Geomorphology by KEITH J. TINKLER
Shorelines and Isostasy edited by D.E. SMITH and A.G. DAWSON
A Place to Grow Old: The Meaning of Environment in Old Age by STEPHEN M. GOLANT     

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Natural Disasters by DAVID ALEXANDER
Critical Issues in Tourism: A Geographical Perspective by CARETH SHAW and ALLAN M. WILLIAMS
Agrarkolonisation, Landnutzung und Kulturlandschaftsverfall in der Provinz New Brunswick (Kanada) (Aachener Geographische Arbeiten, 22) VON AXEL WIEGER
Towards Sustainable Rural Communities: The Guelph Seminar Series Edited by JOHN M. BRYDEN
Making Sense in Geography and Environmental Studies: A Student's Guide to Research, Writing, and Style by MARCOT NORTHEY and DAVID B. KNIGHT     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Archaeonautica 10; 1990. B. LIOU and C. DOMERGUE
A world too vast: the four voyages of Columbus. ALEXANDER McKEE
Westward with Columbus. JOHN DYSON
The Ship of Christopher Columbus. XAVIER PASTOR
Le muée imaginaire de la marine antique. LUCIEN BASCH
Voiles et Voiliers au temps de Louis XIV. MICHEL VERGÉ-FRANCESCHI and ERIC RIETH
Hollandia Compendium. B. KIST, J. GAWRONSKI and D. STOKVIS-VAN BOETZELAER
Henry VIII. A European Court in England. DAVID STARKEY (Ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article:
European naval and maritime history, 300–1500 ARCHIBALD R. LEWIS AND TIMOTHY J. RUNYAN
Amphorae and the Roman economy: an introductory guide D. P. S. PEACOCK AND D. F. WILLIAMS
La production des amphores en Gaule Narbonnaire FANETTE LAUBENHEIMER
Dictionary of ship types ALFRED DUDZUS AND ERNEST HENRIOT; KEITH THOMAS, translator
The grain races—the Baltic background BASIL GREENHILL AND JOHN HACKMAN
The Sea Peoples N. K. SANDARS Revised paperback edition
The golden wreck—the tragedy of the Royal harter ALEXANDER McKEE
The Tobermory Treasure ALISON McLEAY
The China Bird: Killick Martin & Co DAVID M ac GREGOR
The Ports of Roman Baetica: a study of provincial harbours and their functions from an historical and archaeology perspective SHERILL LYNN SPAAR     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Sewn plank boats: archaeological and ethnographic papers (based on those presented at a conference at Greenwich in November 1984; Bar International Series 276) S. McGRAIL and E. KENTLEY (Eds)
Tarquin's ship ALEXANDER McKEE
The search for the oldest shipwrecks in the world DAVID THORNTON
The shorter science and civilisation in China, vol. 3, nautics (abridgement of Joseph Needham's original) COLIN RONAN
Les hommes et la mer dans I'Europe du nord-ouest de I'antiquitéà nos jours A. LOTTIN, J.-C. HOCQUE and STEPHANIE LEBECQ (Eds)
Early American ships JOHN FITZHUGH MILLER
Marine archaeology and the diver ANDY LOCKERY
The discovery of the Titanic ROBERT D. BALLARD and RICK ARCHBOLD     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900: by ALFRED w. CROSBY
North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent: edited by ROBERT D. MITCHELL and PAUL A. GROVES
Defi au développement régional: territorialité et changement social au Nicaragua sandiniste: par JUAN-LUIS KLEIN
Ethnomedical Systems in Africa: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya: by CHARLES M. GOOD
The Geography of Urban Transportation edited by SUSAN HANSON.
High Tech America edited by ANN MARKUSEN, PETER HALL, and AMY CLASMEIER, Allen and Unwin.
Steel City: Hamilton and Region edited by MICHAEL J. DEAR, JOHN J. DRAKE, and LLOYD G. REEDS.
Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays edited by DAVID WOODWARD.
The Savannas: Biogeography and Geobotany by MONICA M. COLE.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise by DAVID N. LIVINGSTONE
Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development by JOHN FRIEDMANN
Development from Within: Survival in Rural Africa edited by D.R. FRASER TAYLOR and FIONA MACKENZIE
Les partenaires du développement face au défi du local sous la direction de CHRISTIANA GAGNON et JUAN-LUIS KLEIN
Human Geography by WILLIAM NORTON
Water Diversion and Export: Learning from the Canadian Experience by J.C. DAY and FRANK QUINN
To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America edited by ALLEN G. NOBLE
Population Change in Canada: The Challenges of Policy Adaptation by RODERIC BEAUJOT
Community, Environment, and Health: Geographic Perspectives edited by M.V. HAYES, LESLIE T. FOSTER and HAROLD D. FOSTER     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The voyaging stars. DAVID LEWIS
Experimental archaeology. JOHN COLES
The boat beneath the pyramid. NANCY JENKINS
The shipwright's trade. SIR WESTCOTT ABELL
Divers and diving. REG VALLINTINE
Holocene eustatic changes and coastal tectonics in the northeast Mediterranean: implications for models of crustal consumption. N. C. FLEMMING
Les bateaux des côtes de la Bretagne nord aux derniers jours de la voile. JEAN LE BOT
Figureheads: carvings on ships from ancient times to the twentieth century. GIANCARLO COSTA
Galionsfiguren: die figürlichen Bugver-zierungen der Schiffe. HANS JÜRGEN HANSEN
Conservation of waterlogged wood International Symposium on the conservation of large objects of waterlogged wood. LOUS H. DE VRIES-ZUIDERBAAN.
Tomol: Chumash watercraft as described in the ethnographic notes of John P. Harrington. T. HUDSON, J. TIMBROOK and M. REMPE (Eds)     

Troublesome Empire: Great Britain's American Dimension, 1600–1777

ROBERT M. BLISS. Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 300.

JOHN MORGAN DEDERER. War in America to 1775: Before Yankee Doodle. New York and London: New York University Press; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 323.

MAX M. MINTZ. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and Horatio Gates. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 278.

PAUL DAVID NELSON. William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 250.

DAVID S. SHIELDS. Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America 1690–1750. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xiv, 295.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: The Land Transformed, 1800–1891. Vol 2 of The Historical Atlas of Canada, edited R. LOUIS GENTILCORE (GEOFFREY J. MATTHEWS, Cartographer) A Scholar's Guide to Geographical Writing on the American and Canadian Past, edited by MICHAEL P. CONZEN, THOMAS A. RUNMEY, and GRAEME WYNN. Continental America, 1800–1867. Vol. 2 of The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, by DONALD W. MEINIG. Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on European Coastal Lowlands, edited by MICHAEL J. TOOLEY and SASKIA JELGERSMA. The Geography of Death: Mortality Atlas of British Columbia, 1985–1989, Edited by LESLIE T. FOSTER and MICHAEL C.R. EDGELL. Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A Manual of Good Practice, JOHN R. GOLD, ALAN JENKINS, ROGER LEE, JANICE MONK, JUDITH RILEY, IFAN SHEPHERD, and DAVID UNWIN. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning, by JOHN SEWELL, with a foreword by Jane Jacobs. Géographie et ethnographie en Grèce ancienne, par CHRISTIAN JACOB, Armand Colin, Paris L'Empire des Cartes: Approche théorique de la cartographie à travers l'histoire par CHRISTIAN JACOB, Albin Michel Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by L. ANDERS SANDBERG. The First Immigrants from Asia: A Population History of the North American Indians, by A.J. JAFFE.     

REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS

Population, Consumption, and the Environment:Religious and Secular Responses edited by HAROLD COWARD, State University of New York Press, Albany N.Y., 1995 Ecotourism: A Sustainable Option? edited by ERLET CATER and GWEN LOWMAN, John Wiley & Sons, in association with the Royal Geographical Society, Chichester, 1994 Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power, and Place by COLIN MICHAEL HALL, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1994 The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, Climatologist-Geographer by JOHN R. MATHER and MARIE SANDERSON, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London, 1996 Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese edited by RONALD SKELDON, M.E. Sharpe Inc., New York, 1994 Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario by STANLEY R. BARRETT, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1994 Geography and National Identity edited by DAVID HOOSON, Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, and Oxford, U.K, 1994     

Reviews

The cog of Bremen, SIEGFRIED FLIEDNER & ROSEMARIE POHL-WEBER
Archaeological research in the Zuider Zee G. D. VAN DER HEIDE
King Henry VIII's Mary Rose, ALEXANDER MCKEE
Francis Drake, Privateer, Contemporary Narratives and Documents
Cornish shipwrecks. Vol. 1: The south coast RKHARD LARN & CLIVE CARTER
Cornish shipwrecks. Vol. 2: The north coast, CLIVE CARTER
Cornish shipwrecks. Vol. 3: The Isles of Scilly, RICHARD LARN
Shipwrecks of North Wales, IVOR WYNNE-JONES
Australian shipwrecks, Vol. 1 : 1622-1850 CHARLES BATESON
The wreck of the Elizabeth, GRAEME HENDERSON
East coast sail: working sail 1850-1970, ROBERT SIMPER
South eastern sail: from the Medway to the Solent 1840-1940, MICHAEL BOUQIJET
Clinker boatbuilding, JOHN LEATHER
Sloops and brigs, JAMES HENDERSON
American figureheads and their carvers, PAULINE A. PINCKNEY
A history of the whale fisheries, J. T. JENKINS
II livello antico del Mar Tirreno, G. SCHMIEDT
Man across the sea, Problems of pre-Columbian contacts
Diving Science International. Proceedings of the Third Symposium of the Scientific Committee of CMAS, 8-9 October, 1973 N. C . FLEMMINC (Ed.)
First aid for finds: A practical guide for archaeologists DAVID LEIGH rt af.
Underwater archaeology : A nascent discipline, Museum and Monuments 13     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Review article: The Spanish shipwrecks of 1554: The Nautical Archaeology of Padre Island (Studies in Archaeology). J. BARTO ARNOLD III and ROBERT S. WEDDLE
Ships and Sea Power Before the Great Persian War, The Ancestry of The Ancient Trireme. H. T. WALLINGA
The Trireme Project. Operational Experience 1987–90, Lessons Learnt. TIMOTHY SHAW (Ed.)
Die Kogge von Bremen, Band I, bauteile und baublauf. WERNER LAHN
A Cog-like Vessel from the Netherlands. ALEYOIS VAN DE MOORTEL
Ancient Shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and the Roman Provinces (BAR International Series 580). A. J. PARKER
Visione del Drachio. BALDISSERA QUINTO DRACHIO. PIETER VAN DER MERWE
Bronze Age, Greek & Roman Technology—Selected Annotated Bibliography. JOHN PETER OLESON
Practices of Archaeological Stratigraphy. EDWARD C. HARRIS, MARLEY R. BROWN III and GREGORY J. BROWN (Eds)
Det nordiska skeppet. Teknik och samhällstrategi i vikingatid och medeltid. bjÖrnvarenius
The Shipbuilder's Repository, 1788. DAVID H. ROBERTS (Ed.)
Predicaments, Pragmatics, and Professionalism: Ethical Conduct in Archaeology (Special Publication No. 1). J. NED WOODALL (Ed.)     

Review Article: British Foreign Policy from Salisbury to Blair

JOHN W. YOUNG. Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xi, 250. $19.95 (us), paper; DOUGLAS NEWTON. British Policy and the Weimar Republic, 1918–1919. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 481. $135.00 (CDN); RICHARD S. GRAYSON. Austen Chamberlain and the Commitment to Europe; British Foreign Policy, 1924–29. London: Frank Cass, 1997; dist. Portland, Oreg.: ISBS. Pp. xviii, 318. $49.50 (us); DAVID DUTTON. Anthony Eden: A Life and Reputation. London: Edward Arnold, 1997; dist. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 576. $40.50 (CDN), paper; PETER JONES. America and the British Labour Party: The ‘Special Relationship’at Work. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. 252. $59.50 (us).     

A Double-Edged Sword: Anglo-American ‘Special Relations,’ 1936–1981

C.A. MACDONALD. The United States, Britain and Appeasement, 1936–1939. New York: St Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 220. $22.50 (US); DAVID REYNOLDS. The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937–41: A Study in Competitive Co-operation. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 397. $28.00 (US); H.G. NICHOLAS (ed.). Washington Despatches, 1941–45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. xviii, 700. $40.00 (US); TERRY H. ANDERSON. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944–1947. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 256. $18.00 (US); ROBERT M. HATHAWAY. Ambiguous Partnership: Britain and America, 1944–1947. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 410. $25.00 (US); JOHN BAYLIS. Anglo-American Defence Relations, 1939–1980: The Special Relationship. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. xxii, 259. $25.00 (US).     

Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
GOOD CRITICISM: GUEST EDITORIAL, Michael J. Dear
Martinique Revisited: The Changing Plant Geographies of a West Indian Island, by CLARISSA KIMBER
Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West: Regional Perspectives on the Settlement Process edited by L.A. ROSENVALL and S.M. EVANS
Brandon: Geographical Perspectives on the Wheat City edited by JOHN WELSTED, JOHN EVERITT and CHRISTOPH STADEL
Elementary Statistics for Geographers by GERALD M. BARBER
The Global Economic System by IAIN WALLACE     

Reviews

Books reviewed: PETER CLARK (ed.), Dover Bronze Age Boat. PETER CLARK (ed.), The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe. NIGEL NAYLING and SEÁN McGRAIL, The Barland's Farm Romano‐Celtic Boat. RONALD BOCKIUS, Die Römerzeitlichen Schiffsfunde von Oberstimm (Bayern). OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN and ATHENA TRAKADAS (eds), Hjortspring—A Pre‐Roman Iron Age Warship in Context. LARS JORGENSEN et al. (eds), The Spoils of Victory: The North in the Shadow of the Roman Empire. ANNE C. SORENSEN, Ladby—a Danish Ship‐grave from the Viking Age. JEREMY GREEN, Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook. BRIAN LAVERY, Ship. JEAN‐PAUL BRAVARD and MICHEL MAGNY (eds), Les Fleuves ont une Histoire: Paléo‐environnement des Rivières et des Lacs depuis 15,000 ans. STEFANO MEDAS, De Rebus Nauticis. L’arte della navigazione nel mondo antico. JOHN BLAKE, The Sea Chart—An Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts. GEOFF HUNT, The Marine Art of Geoff Hunt: Painter of the Naval World of Nelson and Patrick O’Brian. SEÁN McGRAIL, Boats of the World—From the Stone Age to Medieval Times. JOSÉ MARIA UNSAIN (ed.), Urpeko Oroimena: Euskel Herriko Urpeko Arkeologia eta Ondarea (la memoria sumergida; arqueología y patrimonia subacuático vasco). SEAN KINGSLEY, Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land: Processes and Parameters. DAVID RUDLING (ed.), The Archaeology of Sussex to AD 2000. KIERON HEARD with DAMIAN GOODBURN, Investigating the Maritime History of Rotherhithe: Excavations at Pacific Wharf, 165 Rotherhithe Street, Southwark. GEORGE INDRUSZIEWCKI, Man, Ship, Landscape: Ships and Seafaring in the Oder Mouth Area AD 400–1400: a case‐study of an ideological context. MICHEL L’HOUR (ed.), The Sunken Treasures of Brunei Darussalem. TØNNES BEKKER‐NIELSEN (ed.), Ancient Fishing and Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region. DAVID EVANS, Building the Steam Navy: Dockyards, Technology and the Creation of the Victorian Battle Fleet 1830–1906. DAVID LYON and RIF WINFIELD, The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. EDWYN GRAY, Nineteenth Century Torpedoes and their Inventors. MATTHEW A. RUSSELL, Comet: Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report. Channel Islands National Park. MICHAEL STAMMERS, End of Voyages: the Afterlife of a Ship. L. M. COLLINS, The Sinking of the Titanic: the Mystery Solved. MÅRTEN TRIEWALD, The Art of Living Under Water.