Download or read book Lords of the Sea written by Peter D. Shapinsky and published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epic political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan’s late medieval period (ca. 1300–1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers who, though usually dismissed as "pirates," thought of themselves as sea lords. Over the course of these centuries, Japan’s sea lords became maritime magnates who wielded increasing amounts of political and economic authority by developing autonomous maritime domains that operated outside the auspices of state authority. They played key roles in the operation of networks linking Japan to the rest of the world, and their protection businesses, shipping organizations, and sea tenure practices spread their influence across the waves to the continent, shaping commercial and diplomatic relations with Korea and China. Japan's land-based authorities during this time not only came to accept the autonomy of "pirates" but also competed to sponsor sea-lord bands who could administer littoral estates, fight sea battles, protect shipping, and carry trade. In turn, prominent sea-lord families expanded their dominion by shifting their locus of service among several patrons and by appropriating land-based rhetorics of lordship, which forced authorities to recognize them as legitimate lords over sea-based domains. By the end of the late medieval period, the ambitions, tactics, and technologies of sea-lord mercenary bands proved integral to the naval dimensions of Japan’s sixteenth-century military revolution. Sea lords translated their late medieval autonomy into positions of influence in early modern Japan and helped make control of the seas part of the ideological foundations of the state.

Download or read book Lords of the Sea written by Alan G. Jamieson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea relates the history of these pirates, examining their dramatic impact as the maritime vanguard of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1500s through their breaking from Ottoman control in the early seventeenth century. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs rose to the apogee of their powers during this period, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and venturing as far as England, Ireland, and Iceland. Serving as a vital component of the main Ottoman fleet, the Barbary pirates also conducted independent raids of Christian ships and territory. While their activities declined after 1700, Jamieson reveals that it was only in the early nineteenth century that Europe and the United States finally curtailed the Barbary menace, a fight that culminated in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of exploration, slavery, and conquest.

Download or read book Lords of the Sea written by John R. Hale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the epic battles, the indomitable ships, and the men--from extraordinary leaders to seductive rogues--who established Athens' supremacy, taking readers on a tour of the far-flung expeditions and detailing the legacy of a forgotten maritime empire.

Download or read book Lords of the Ocean written by James L. Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After helping to rescue the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb takes Benjamin Franklin to France and raids the British coast.

Download or read book Lords of the Sea The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar 1663 1723 written by Binu John Mailaparambil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing mainly on the Mappila Muslim trading family of the Arackal Ali Rajas, this book throws light on the repercussions of European commercial expansion on the traditional socio-political relations in the South Indian kigdom of Cannanore during the early-modern period.

Download or read book Lords of the Sea The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar 1663 1723 written by Binu John Mailaparambil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the seventeenth century the political and ritual relationships between the various elite houses of the kingdom of Cannanore on the Malabar Coast were affected by the shifting patterns in the Indian Ocean maritime trade. This study shows how the Arackal Ali Rajas, the most prominent maritime merchants in early-modern Malabar, managed to fence off the attempts of the Dutch East India Company to gain control of the regional trade, and how they succeeded in maintaining their commercial network across the Indian Ocean intact.

Download or read book Seduced by the Sea Lord written by Starla Night and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tattooed mer-shifters are climbing out of the secret depths to claim their soul mates and save their race. Determined warlord Torun cannot wait to claim Lucy, who mistook him for a shipwreck survivor and pulled his injured body from the ocean. All his instincts tell him she is his soul mate. Now she must join with him and give him a child. Lucy can't believe the words coming out of this dominant male. He insists her destiny is to become a mermaid queen and mother to his future children. The one thing "destiny" forgot to mention was that Lucy's a broke divorcee who can't even have a child. It's really too bad, because his gorgeous lips are all too kissable, and she'd love to see his iridescent gold tattoos moving as he flexed those broad, hard pectorals under the water... But Torun's in more immediate danger than a bad bump to the head, and Lucy is the only one who can save him. Their choices will either save the entire race of mermen, or destroy it. This is a complete novel with a happy ending. Also, it features steamy mer shifter love scenes, underwater gun fights, and a giant female octopus named Mr. Huggles. Fall in love with these men of the sea!

Download or read book To Shining Sea written by Stephen Howarth and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and authoritative narrative account of American sea power written in recent times.

Download or read book The Lord Clarendon s History of the Grand Rebellion Compleated written by Edward Hyde of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1717 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Pink Conch written by Raj Behera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will describe in four parts the waves of the east, west, north, and south. It will define two characters of fish from the Bay Area, who sought for an adventure from the Pacific Rim to the Indian Ocean. The main objective was to find the queen conch, or sri conch, generally known as the pink conch. Being in the Bay Area with the sound of the various objects of the sea, such as steamers, ships, surfing, and other activities, they forgot to explore the real value of life and the determination to find their objective. Lately, they came to know about the peace-loving pink conch and wanted to explore the peace formula and share it with the aquatics in the San Francisco Bay as well as beyond. Somehow, they were inspired to understand the conch, especially the pink conch. Never had they seen it, and they tried to know about it. Mostly they came to know the beautiful Bahamas and the Caribbean Sea and the conch habitants and the environment in those areas. Most likely, the serenity was derived with a variety of pleasant objects like the reef, beach, sea, clear sky, temperature, and many more. Two unique aquatics of the bay from the fish class finally started their journey from the crowded San Francisco Bay, from the Berkeley region, with the aim to obtain the pink conch and attain a state of divinity. That’s the ambition and goal they formulated after attending the first peace conference in the Pacific Rim. The one and only goal was to obtain the peace formula. Two friends, Goldy and Neil, planned for the journey with sufficient knowledge and confidence. Ultimately, they prayed to the Lord of the Milky Ocean for protection and guidance, similar to the adventure of the monkey who crossed the Indian Ocean by the mercy of the Lord of the Milky Ocean. The course of action was different as they flew over the ocean and now under the water. Their cause was to find out the lost loved one and hear the curiosity. Curiosity is the basic form of intelligence. When they started from the Golden Gate Bridge, a place they were situated, and learned about the conch, why was the conch so much a curiosity? The real path for attaining the divine conch was laid out by the two seekers as follows: Path from North Pacific Ocean to the Panama Canal, to the North Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean Sea), to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Bahamas, to the South Atlantic Ocean, to the Indian Ocean, to the Arabian Ocean, to the Indian Ocean, and to the Bay of Bengal. Please read the entire book to know more. Learn and relax and have fun! That’s much more important.

Download or read book pH A Novel written by Nancy Lord and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When marine biologist Ray Berringer and his student crew embark on an oceanographic cruise in the Gulf of Alaska, the waters are troubled in more ways than one. Ray's co-leader, a famed chemist, is abandoning ship just as the ocean's pH is becoming a major concern. Something at their university is corrosive, and it's going to take more than science to correct. Powerful bonds are forged among offbeat characters studying the effects of ocean acidification on pteropods, a tiny, keystone species, in this cutting-edge CliFi novel. (Includes author Q&A and reading group discussion questions.)

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Download or read book Fishing Gone written by Sid Dobrin and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have a rapacious relationship with the world’s ocean, extracting immeasurable quantities of its inhabitants and resources, while simultaneously depositing unbound sums of pollution into it. If we are to move toward sustainable practices, then we must first move toward ways of thinking about fish and fisheries beyond mere economic agendas. And there is one group in particular who could make an impact: saltwater anglers. Recreational saltwater fishing is big business and big culture. The industry is one of the largest in the United States, but that has not translated into a cohesive effort, agenda, or ethic. Saltwater anglers, a diverse group with a range of motivations, do not belong to a single organization through which to galvanize significant voting or lobbying power toward conservation regulation. As a result, federal policymakers have traditionally focused on commercial harvesting interests. Dubbed the “most contemplative of pastimes,” recreational fishing provides a valuable perspective on how humans interact with saltwater environments. Fishing, Gone? builds on this tradition of reflection and opens up the saltwater sportfishing life as a method for thinking through the current status of marine fisheries and environment. Author Sid Dobrin calls on fellow saltwater anglers to reconsider their relationship to fishes and the ocean—the sport can no longer be only about the joy and freedom of fishing, but it must also be about living for the ocean, living with the ocean, and living through the ocean. It is about securing the opportunity to fish on while meeting the economic and environmental challenges that lie ahead.

Download or read book Secrets of the Sea Lord A Merman Shifter Fates Mates Romance Novel written by Starla Night and published by Wendy Lynn Clark Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this HOT merman shifter romance by USA Today Bestselling paranormal romance author Starla Night! Tattooed warriors are climbing out of the secret depths to claim their soul mates and save their race! Harmony is terrified when she awakens on a raft in the middle of the ocean with a deadly, tattooed Lord of the Sea hulking over her. But she quickly realizes he’s the one who saved her from the storm—and that joining his undersea world is the only way she’ll survive. Mer warlord Faier dreads his bride’s terror as she stares on his wrecked body. A lifetime of honorable service has destroyed his chance to woo a mate. Can the pure-hearted human ever look past his scars and see the man within? This star-crossed pair is stranded deep in forbidden territory. Their foe has no compunction about killing Faier and taking Harmony. Because, according to the ancient laws, Faier is the true enemy. Until a long-buried secret changes everything… Secrets of the Sea Lord is the sixth novel in the bestselling Lords of Atlantis series. For fans of Elizabeth Briggs, Hattie Jacks, and Calista Skye, it contains shocking secrets, forbidden love, and all-new sea animal friends. Fall in love with these warriors of the sea!