The final issue of the International Journal of Maritime History‘s thirty-seventh vintage contains nine original articles and 21 book reviews

We continue to define maritime history in the broadest possible terms, retaining all that is good about the field and combining it with an increasing variety of global perspectives.

We continue to welcome all types of submissions, for original research articles as well as for shorter, more practical research notes. –

Issue Contents:

Articles:

Unsafe harbours: Typhoons and local shipping in the late Spanish Philippines by Greg Bankoff

A critical review of Alexander von Humboldt’s argument on the Chinese origin of the compass by S. June Kim

Ideals of seamanship during the Danish transition from sail to steam by Nils Valdersdorf Jensen

Developing maritime trade in the Sea of Azov: The case of port Mariupol and the role of Austrian merchants by Svitlana Arabadzhy

The penetration and spread of bottom trawling in the Greek seas and the establishment of territorial waters in the nineteenth century by Nikos E. Alevyzakis

Hospital ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From pre-war planning to the aftermath of Jutland by Edward J. Wawrzynczak 

The contributions of Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Syah (1920–1941) to the fisheries economy in Terengganu by Ruhaizan Sulaiman

‘A rose by any other name’: The political origins of the Nigerian Navy (1955–1965) by Akali Omeni

Biographical contentions: Barry Unsworth’s Losing Nelson by Michael Titlestad

Book Reviews: 21 in Total including:

Book Review: The Corporeal Life of Seafaring by Laleh Khalili Reviewed By Nick Bailey

Book Review: Naval Seamen’s Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Melanie Holihead reviewed by Margarette Lincoln

Book Review: BP Shipping Pictorial: The Golden Years 1945–1975 by Ray Solly Reviewed by Helen Devereux 

View the articles and book reviews online here – https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/IJH/current

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