All history is maritime history
International Journal of Maritime History 16:1 (2004): 261–62.
In his natural history of lifeboats, John Stilgoe has mined scores of primary and secondary source store create the complex world of vessels which in the best of circumstances go all but unnoticed and are never launched. It is, he writes, a careful if incomplete look at an artifact that makes most people uncomfortable and at the environment peculiar to that artifact.More
International Journal of Maritime History 15:2 (2003): 411.
Among the many things we take for granted today is the ability to preserve fruit, vegetables, and meats through refrigeration and to slake our thirst with cold and iced beverages. The association of ice and food in northerly or high-altitude climates where it forms naturally is of considerable antiquity.More
From a thread on MARHST-L, February 2000.
One of the more banal criticisms in letters to the editor and book reviews is that “If the author can’t get something as straightforward as, say, the birth year of Chester Arthur correct, why should we believe anything in the book?!”More