Neptune and the Netherlands

Neptune and the Netherlands
Author: L H J Sicking
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004138501

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This book, mainly based on primary sources from various countries, provides fascinating new insights into the origin and development of the Admiralty and maritime policy in the Low Countries before the Dutch Revolt, including government interference with maritime strategy, warfare, privateering, prize law, commerce, and fishery.

Neptune's Laboratory

Neptune's Laboratory
Author: Antony Adler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0674972015

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We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought "to pierce the profundity" of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet.

Neptune's Militia

Neptune's Militia
Author: James Allen Lewis
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780873386326

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Under the leadership of Commodore Alexander Gillon, a prominent Charleston merchant, the South Carolina navy secured the services of the largest warship under any American's command during the American Revolution, the frigate South Carolina. This study examines its design and achievements.

The Neptune of Europe. Containing Complete and Correct Lists of the Naval Force of Great-Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Portugal with a Variety of Other Interesting Materials ...

The Neptune of Europe. Containing Complete and Correct Lists of the Naval Force of Great-Britain, France, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Portugal with a Variety of Other Interesting Materials ...
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Total Pages: 68
Release: 1781
Genre: Denmark
ISBN:

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Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9053569146

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For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have been subjected to an elaborate hazing at sea called “crossing the line.” Typically initiated upon a crossing of the equator, the beatings, dunkings, sexual play, and drinking displays that constitute crossing the line have in recent decades been banned by some fleets— but they have also been the subject of staunch defenses and fond reminiscences. Crossing the Line studies the purpose and the changing meaning of the ceremony, substantially revising long-held assumptions.

The Terror of the Seas?

The Terror of the Seas?
Author: Steve Murdoch
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2010
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9004185682

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This book places early modern Scottish maritime warfare in its European context. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little known, or unknown, aspects of naval history. It also provides many valuable new perspectives on the importance of the sea to the Scots, and of the Scots to the naval history of Great Britain.

The Founding of the Dutch Republic

The Founding of the Dutch Republic
Author: James Tracy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199209111

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James D. Tracy offers a major re-evaluation of the Dutch Revolt and its role in the creation of a new Republic. He draws extensively on State records to illuminate the dominant influence of provincial towns in formulating a coherent strategy for the war.

Neptune

Neptune
Author: Aron Nels Steinke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN: 9780979746529

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A story about a couple of kids and their dog, Neptune, who just might have supernatural powers.