The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800 - Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology

In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600--1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.

About the author

Phillip Reid, Ph.D. (2017), Memorial University of Newfoundland, is an independent scholar. He has published articles on the early modern British Atlantic merchant ship in maritime, transport, and material history journals and edited collections.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip Reid
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2020
• EAN: 9789004424081
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42408-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 604 g
• Series: Technology and Change in Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous