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Book Review: Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906 by Heather Sutherland
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 210-212, February 2022.
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Following the icy thing: When natural ice was a commodity
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 113-122, February 2022. This article explores how a focus on commodities, and associated ‘follow-the-thing’ methodologies, might help nuance and deepen traditional historical narrative…
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Navy victuallers and the rise of Cheshire cheese
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 196-209, February 2022. In the 1990s Charles Foster claimed that a commercial Cheshire cheese trade began in 1650, the year when the first coastwise cargo from Chester was recorded in …
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Economics without ethics? Medical treatment of African slaves aboard Dutch West India Company and private slave ships
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-26, February 2022. This article discusses the treatment of enslaved Africans by the Dutch during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treatment is interpreted in two ways – mora…
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Editorial
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 1-2, February 2022.
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Two conferences in the natural-ice trade
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-155, February 2022. A conference in shipping can be understood as a cartel-like association of competing shipping companies. The purpose is to ensure stable framework conditions in…
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The French refrigeration industry’s protectionism propaganda against Norwegian ice imports, 1899–1920
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 156-171, February 2022. Imports of Norwegian natural ice into France during the long nineteenth century were met with hostility from the emerging French artificial-ice industry. The ph…
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Rooting for ro-ro: Exploring how strategic choices by pulp and paper companies contributed to Sweden’s specialized maritime export systems, 1960–2015
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 63-82, February 2022. The Nordic, particularly Swedish and Finnish, pulp and paper (P&P) companies are represented in earlier research as using specialized maritime transport syste…
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The cultural landscape and maritime identity of Szczecin: The past and present of a port city
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 83-100, February 2022. This article analyses the maritime cultural landscape of Szczecin, a port city connected by a river and a lagoon to the Baltic Sea, although at a considerable di…
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The ‘Last Ice Age’ in maritime history: An introduction
International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 101-112, February 2022. The point of departure of this Forum is an ongoing research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council: ‘The Last Ice Age: The Trade in Natural Ice as an …