I am looking for books on the history of the maritime business. Can be about modern business or about years past.
I'm having difficulty tracking down just what a Crayer looked like. Was it like a three masted Caravel? Did it use a steering oar instead of a rudder? The most I can find is that it was 20-50 tons and used for cross channel trade. I'm not finding any historical drawings or modern reconstructions but I've been asked to draw one for work.
I think covering ocean current science with migrations through the history would be a very interesting video. Desertification of the Sahara Desert and the direction of sea currents isolating sub-saharan africa, how the polynesians found their way around the pacific ocean, trade in the mediterranean, how vikings made it to North America before Columbus, etc. It’s fascinating how much of human history went a certain way because of how the ocean interacts with all sorts of scientific elements.
It seems like the Caribbean with its long chain of inhabited islands and powerful continental empires near by would offer a strong motivation for such a maritime tradition to develop, do we know anything about inter-island trade and migration in the region?
I am into military history, in particular naval history. I think it is a very specific subject and there are only few universities in the world that offer a degree in naval/maritime history, therefore it may give you interesting opportunities. Am I wrong?
In addition, I am thinking about applying for the MA Maritime History at the University of Plymouth. Do you have any feedback? Do you have friends that obtained this type of degree?
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I was just curious about is there any book about Maritime History of India. Like there were many empires like Gupta,Kalinga,Cholas,Pandyas etc with rich maritime history.
Change and Continuity in an Age of Uncertainty
Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, WA Maritime Museum, and the Australian Association for Maritime History are inviting scholars and enthusiasts to the biennial Indian Ocean Studies Conference, Change and Continuity in an Age of Uncertainty, to be held in Perth, Western Australia on November 12-13, (Friday, Saturday) 2021.
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has always been a region subject to change. Famous port cities in the Indian Ocean rose and fell on the changing fortunes of empires, climate change, new trading routes, and plagues. Religions and political alliances spread and contracted in much the same way due to similar factors. Yet despite these changes, the IOR consistently re-emerged as an important conduit for ‘trade’ in the broadest sense of the term (trade in goods, ideas, people, and politics). Now the IOR is facing new challenges and opportunities including Covid 19, even as underlying continuities seem to remain.
Details at: Indian Ocean Conference 2021 (sheridan.edu.au)
