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# Lincoln Paine

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- [Why We Should Read World History](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-we-should-read-world-history#new_tab) - Dec. 25, 2013. When we pick up history books today what exactly do we expect from them? Historian Lincoln Paine considers what should be in our history. The term globalization entered the popular lexicon in the 1980s, but the phenomenon of globalization, which has effects not only across space but also through time, is not
- [Review of Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century, by Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína, translated by Carla Rahn Phillips](https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/3.2/br_paine.html#new_tab) - World History Connected 3:2 (2006). First published in translation in 1998 and issued in paperback last year, Pablo Pérez-Mallaína's Spain's Men of the Sea is an outstanding contribution to the study of maritime life in the sixteenth-century. As director of the Department of American History at the University of Seville, the author has mined rich
- [Review of Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800–1050): The Kitāb Akriyat al-Sufun vis-à-vis the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos, by Hassan S. Khalilieh](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/index.html#new_tab) - The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 17:1 (2007): 62–63. Hassan Khalilieh’s Admiralty and Maritime Laws in the Mediterranean Sea (ca. 800-1050) is an invaluable work of legal history that fills a large gap in the history of maritime and international law in the medieval period. Specifically, he attempts to demonstrate “the contribution of Islamic jurisprudence
- [World History and Other Marginal and Perverse Pursuits: An Interview with Felipe Fernández-Armesto.](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario/article/world-history-and-other-marginal-and-perverse-pursuits-an-interview-with-felipe-fernandezarmesto/DEBEA723A3538FF267E792AD60CCDBAD#new_tab) - Itinerario 32:3 (2008): 7–21. LP: I want to thank you for agreeing to talk to me about your career, your teaching, and your writing, and I thought we would divide the interview into three sections... FFA: Rather like Gaul... LP: Yes, but I don’t want to come, see, and conquer; I just want to elicit
- [Schooner Struck: Sail Training on the Malcolm Miller](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_045_autumn-1987/42#new_tab) - Sea History 45 (1987): 40–43. Two days of storms in the North Sea held us in Amsterdam. Gusts of wind as high as fifty knots blew plumes of spray off the IJ across de Ruijterkade, the road that runs along the river. Low puffy clouds raced across the sky and the sporadic hard-driving drizzle leaked
- [Bring Home the Vicar!](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_038_winter-1985-86/14) - Sea History 38 (1985–86): 12–16. In 1912, according to a man from thereabouts, a hulk named Vicar of Bray came to her present resting place at Goose Green, head of Choiseul Sound in the Falkland Islands. With coal in her holds, the Vicar was blown ashore in a storm and fetched up in shallow waters
- [Review of Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean, Dionisius S. Agius](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/index.html#new_tab) - Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 18:2 (2008): 120–21. Rarely do books come along that make such a demonstrable contribution to the field of maritime history as Dionisius Agius's Classic Ships of Islam, a work that effectively re-lays the foundation for the study of Muslim shipping in the western Indian Ocean. “This is what the book
- [Review of Encyclopedia of Exploration. Vol. 4: 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration, Raymond John Howgego.](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/084387140902100273#new_tab) - International Journal of Maritime History 21:2 (2009): 438–39. Raymond John Howgego’s reputation as a master of the genre and authority on his chosen subject was assured with the publication of the Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800, the first volume of the quartet, only six years ago. The previous volume, on exploration of “The Oceans, Islands
- [Review of India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza—“India Book,” by S. D. Goitein and Mordechai A. Friedman](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/index.html#new_tab) - The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 21 (2011): 300–301. The preservation of medieval documents owes much to chance. For works whose authors did not belong to an institution with an interest in corporate memory, like a house of worship or a government, the odds were long indeed. When the documents in question constitute little more
- [Review of Encyclopedia of Exploration. Vol. 5, Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel, by Raymond John Howgego](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/084387141302500239#new_tab) - International Journal of Maritime History, 25:2 (2013): 299–300. It is hard to overstate John Howgego’s achievement as the author of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration. The first four volumes are masterpieces of research and clear writing. However monumental the effort to bring them to press, it is easy to imagine the monumental but straightforward ambition
- [Review of New Bedford’s Civil War, by Earl F. Mulderdink, III](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/084387141302500160#new_tab) - International Journal of Maritime History 25:1 (2013): 401–402. In the acknowledgements of this well-researched study, Earl Mulderink quotes the remarks of an antebellum historian of the country’s once premier whaling port: “I am aware that much of the material of this history is wanting in arrangement, but it should be remembered that I have been
- [Review of Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation, by Joshua E. London](https://lincolnpaine.com/review-of-victory-in-tripoli-how-americas-war-with-the-barbary-pirates-established-the-u-s-navy-and-shaped-a-nation-by-joshua-e-london/) - International Journal of Maritime History 18:1 (2006): 485–86. Although its bicentennial anniversary has recently come and gone, the 1801–1805 war between the United States and Tripoli remains an obscure episode in American military and diplomatic history. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons. The war was the nation's first protracted conflict following independence, and
- [What’s A Navy For? Unfouling the Anchor of the Ship of State](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2013-12-18/whats-navy#new_tab) - Foreign Affairs Online, Dec. 18, 2013. There is nothing like a changing geopolitical scene coupled with fiscal uncertainty to send shudders through a nation’s military establishment, especially when that nation is, like the United States, a global power. Institutional soul-searching usually takes the form of devising new strategies that seek to redefine the military’s mission
- [Maritime History and Its Discontents: A Response to Smith and Chaves](https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/9837#new_tab) - Coriolis 2:2 (2011). In recent decades, it has become increasingly common for maritime historians to question where we are, where we are going, what we do and how we fit into the historical profession generally. Such inquiries make sense in an institutional setting, and have resulted in the creation of any number of professional organizations
- [Art of the Spanish Armada](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_048_autumn-1988/24#new_tab) - Sea History 48 (1988): 26–29. The portrayal of ships and shipping, whether in peace or war, is an ancient art. Unquestionably the most famous maritime scene from the Middle Ages is the 70-meter long Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. Despite the lack of linear perspective typical
- [The Discovery of the Columbia River Recorded](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_043_spring-1987/24#new_tab) - Sea History 43 (1987): 20–21. Among the early voyages that took American enterprise beyond the confines of the Atlantic Ocean, those of Captain Robert Gray in the Columbia Rediviva to the Pacific Northwest, to China, and thence around the world, stand out for their boldness, their commercial success, and for the discoveries that resulted from
- [Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Loyalist and Patriot](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_042_winter-1986-87/32#new_tab) - Sea History 42 (1986–87): 30–31. The first schoolship program undertaken in the United States was that promoted and established by the British philanthropist and seaman Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, in 1829, at Nantucket. Two years before, Sir Isaac had endowed the Coffin School on Nantucket “for the purpose of promoting decency, good order, and morality
- [The Gosnold Voyage of 1602: An Introduction](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_042_winter-1986-87/10#new_tab) - Sea History 42 (1986–87): 8–10. Bartholomew Gosnold was, so far as we know, the first European to come to the islands south of Cape Cod. His three-week stay on what he named Elizabeth’s Island, between Vineyard Sound and Buzzard’s Bay, heralded the beginning of sustained efforts to establish English-speaking people in North America.
- [Operation Sail 1986/Salute to Liberty](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_040_summer-1986/12#new_tab) - Sea History 40 (1986): 10–11. Operation Sail. Go out of the fraternity of the sea and speak these words and you will, more often than not, get a flicker of recognition, a remembrance of something heard about or better, of something experienced, a day lived in the full expectation and in the presence of something
- [Nautical Archaeology: Mediterranean Origins](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_039_spring-1986/10#new_tab) - Sea History 39 (1986): 8–10. For as long as ships have been sinking, people have been going after them. In the Mediterranean, where there is an extensive sponge fishing industry, sponge divers have for centuries salvaged bits of wrecks for their own purposes, and occasionally on behalf of an owner. Even early on, when valuable
- [94.9 WHOM, “Chart Your Next Reading Adventure with Portland Author Lincoln Paine.”](https://949whom.com/chart-your-next-reading-adventure-with-portland-author-lincoln-paine/?trackback=tsmclip#new_tab) - Interview with Sandra Harris, Jan. 10, 2014.
- [8 Bells Lecture, Naval War College](https://lincolnpaine.com/8-bells-lecture-naval-war-college/) - Newport, RI, Jan. 23, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBtNgo5xYqM
- [Interview with Claude Berube, Museum Director, United States Naval Academy](https://lincolnpaine.com/interview-with-claude-berube-museum-director-united-states-naval-academy/) - The Vice Admiral Ralph L. Frances Shifley Lecture Series, United States Naval Academy, Feb 3, 2014. https://youtu.be/ThGkggNfoOw
- [Maritime History as Human Ecology](https://lincolnpaine.com/maritime-history-as-human-ecology/) - College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, May 7, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iTgSIOea0
- [The Aquarium of the Pacific](https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia/player/lecture_archive_lincoln_paine#new_tab) - Long Beach, California, Sep. 24, 2014.
- [Commonwealth Club of California, Environment & Natural Resources](https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2014-09-26/sea-civilization-maritime-history-world#new_tab) - San Francisco, Sept. 26, 2014.
- [WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Interview with Joe Donahue](https://www.wamc.org/post/sea-and-civilization-lincoln-paine#new_tab) - Oct. 31, 2013
- [PRI’s The World: Interview with Marco Werman](https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-08/sea-has-been-main-artery-cultural-transformations-throughout-history#new_tab) - Nov. 8, 2013
- [Firehouse Forum III, “Maine Maritime History”](https://lincolnpaine.com/firehouse-forum-iii-maine-maritime-history/) - Firehouse Center, Damariscotta, Maine. In conversation with maritime novelist and educator James L. “Jim” Nelson and maritime archaeologist Dr. Warren Riess, Oct. 9, 2014. https://vimeo.com/115602251
- [John Batchelor Show, Part 1](https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/5/3/c/53c15a19e847f621/AUTHOR-MUSIC-2015-400074-SEA-CIVILIZATION-LINCOLN-PAINE1.mp3?c_id=8961310&cs_id=8961310&expiration=1599745632&hwt=83c0f18ec504dad9bd9c80428229df3a#new_tab) - May 9, 2015
- [On Reviewing](https://www.academia.edu/9794201/Paine_On_Reviewing_#new_tab) - 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?!”
- [Review of The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle, by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson](https://lincolnpaine.com/review-of-the-ice-king-frederic-tudor-and-his-circle-by-carl-seaburg-and-stanley-paterson/) - 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
- [Review of Lifeboat, by John R. Stilgoe](https://lincolnpaine.com/review-of-lifeboat-by-john-r-stilgoe/) - 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
- [Crosscurrents, hosted by Hana Baba](https://kalw.org/post/author-lincoln-paine-talks-about-bay-areas-role-maritime-history-world) - Recorded in San Francisco, October 1, 2014 Seafarers, from fisherman to explorers, have been coming to Bay Area ports for centuries. Maritime historian Lincoln Paine says our relationship with the ocean has been instrumental in shaping not only the history of the Bay Area, but of the entire world. His latest book, Sea and Civilization: A
- [Review of Titanic: A Night Remembered. International Journal of Maritime History, by Stephanie L. Barczewski](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/084387140501700134#new_tab) - International Journal of Maritime History 17:1 (2005): 327–29. In February 2005, Belfast artist Rita Duffy announced her plan to tow an iceberg to Belfast to commemorate the city’s industrial heritage by drawing attention to its having been the birthplace of the Titanic. A bizarre scheme by any measure—Duffy herself acknowledges that some might deem it
- [Review of A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence, by Martin Stuart-Fox](https://lincolnpaine.com/review-of-a-short-history-of-china-and-southeast-asia-tribute-trade-and-influence-by-martin-stuart-fox/) - Itinerario 29:2 (2005): 124–26. The subject of relations between China and Southeast Asia is not a new one, and has been studied from a wide variety of perspectives. What distinguishes the approach of Martin Stuart-Fox, a professor of history at Queensland University, is that 'this is not a book only about China's relations with Southeast
- [The History of Quarantine](https://engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/the-history-of-quarantine-with-lincoln-paine/#new_tab) - Engelsberg Ideas, History Lessons, July 1, 2020
- [States of Anarchy, with Hamsini Hariharan](https://lincolnpaine.com/states-of-anarchy-with-hamsini-hariharan/) - Ep. 10: “All History is Maritime History.” Mumbai, India, May 13, 2019. https://youtu.be/SnR4g-AttC4
- [Review of China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China, by Zheng Yangwen](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/index.html#new_tab) - The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 25:4 (2015): 464–65. A book entitled China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped China might reasonably be expected to focus on maritime affairs, especially the activities of Chinese mariners, merchants, and officials. As Zheng writes in her introduction, she wants to reassess Qing China by “putting the
- [An interview with Professor Sal Mercogliano, North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH)](https://lincolnpaine.com/an-interview-with-professor-sal-mercogliano-north-american-society-for-oceanic-history-nasoh/) - June 8, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDe6XnfbiKk
- [Clout of the Ancient Mariner](https://lincolnpaine.com/clout-of-the-ancient-mariner/) - Times of India LitFest—“Waternamah.” In conversation with Vikram Doctor, May 31, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0n8Z5dQ-Es
- [The Mariners’ World: Comprehending the Incomprehensible](https://view.publitas.com/p222-7522/offing-magazinelow-res/page/20-21#new_tab) - Offing Echoes (Mumbai) (Feb. 2019): 15–22. Few arenas of human activity have a greater influence on the world today than the maritime industry. Perhaps none does. This is not hyperbole. Rather, it is a simple fact, as attested in three straightforward statistics: The world’s oceangoing fleet carries about 80 percent of world trade by volume.
- [The Entrepreneurs: Architecture and Maritime Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Portland](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-entrepreneurs-architecture-and-maritime-enterprise-in-nineteenth-century-portland/) - Landmarks Lecture, Great Portland Landmarks, Feb. 20, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHstV62nY5s&feature=youtu.be Earlier this week I gave an illustrated Landmarks Lecture entitled “The Entrepreneurs: Architecture and Maritime Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Portland,” which examines how the architecture of Portland’s nineteenth-century residential, commercial, and political construction reflects their entrepreneurial builders’ personal aspirations and civic commitment. It’s a different approach to
- [An Energetic History of Maritime Maine](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=351306869052990&extid=X3yzjYTpsDgU7rfZ#new_tab) - L.L. Bean, Winter Lecture Series. Freeport, Maine, Feb. 8, 2019.
- [John Batchelor Show, Part 2](https://johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts/sat-51015-author-jbs-sea-and-civilization-maritime-history-world-lincoln-paine-part-2#new_tab) - May 10, 2015
- [Interview with Sifra Lentin](https://lincolnpaine.com/interview-with-sifra-lentin/) - Gateway House, Mumbai, India, Apr. 5, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgAmyna8laM
- [The Sea and Civilization: The Origins of a Globalised World, Gateway House, in association with Avid Learning and the U.S. Consulate, Mumbai, India](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-sea-and-civilization-the-origins-of-a-globalised-world-gateway-house-in-association-with-avid-learning-and-the-u-s-consulate-mumbai-india/) - n conversation with Sifra Lentin, Gateway House’s Bombay History Fellow, and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote. Mumbai, Apr. 5, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJI-fEinpKk
- [Rediscovering the Age of Discovery](https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2020/11/Paine-Rediscovering-the-age-of-Disco.pdf) - In The Routledge Research Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400–1800: Oceans in Global History and Culture, edited by Claire Jowitt, Steve Mentz, and Craig Lambert. London: Routledge, 2020. Among the most complex issues of early modern history is the nature of the European breakout onto the world ocean and the so-called ‘age of discovery’.
- [2020—Putting Our Pandemic in Perspective](https://engelsbergideas.com/author/lincoln-paine/) - Engelsberg Ideas, June 30, 2020 Historians are masters of teasing momentous events from apparently insignificant details. The most obvious such effort is Ray Huang’s 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline, which considered a number of little examined incidents and trends that took place in or began in 1587 and that,
- [River Cultures in World History—Rescuing a Neglected Resource](https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0220-4) - Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 12 (2019): 457–72. To take the pulse of history, touch a river. For land-bound species dependent on water for mere survival, they are indispensable. But humans’ relationship to rivers is far more complex than that of any other life form. Streams may entice us with their apparent
- [The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World—A Roundtable Response](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-sea-and-civilization-a-maritime-history-of-the-world-a-roundtable-response/) - International Journal of Maritime History 28:3 (2016): 589–600. As anyone who has ever read two or more reviews of the same work knows, the parable of the blind men and the elephant is really about launching a book into the world. This can be exasperating at times, particularly for authors who are themselves reviewers (or teachers) and more
- [The Indian Ocean in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries](https://www.academia.edu/10216397/Paine_The_Indian_Ocean_in_the_7th_and_8th_Centuries_) - In Maritime Contacts of the Past: Deciphering Connections Amongst Communities, ed. by Sila Tripati, 37–53. New Delhi: Delta Book World, 2014. The study of Eurasia in the seventh century is dominated by the history of the origins of the Muslim caliphate and the Tang Dynasty. The first Tang emperor, Gaozu, ascended the throne in 618
- [Beyond the Dead White Whales: Literature of the Sea and Maritime History](https://www.academia.edu/1760361/Paine_Beyond_the_Dead_White_Whales_Literature_of_the_Sea_and_Maritime_History_) - International Journal of Maritime History 22:1 (2010): 205–28. In the course of researching a maritime history of the world, I became aware of a vastly greater body of maritime literature than the armchair sailor—or armchair historian—usually encounters. I wondered whether this lack of awareness was due to my own want of initiative in recognizing or
- [The Environmental Turn in Maritime History](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/argonauta/index_e.html#new_tab) - Argonauta 37:2 (2020): 5–8. Periodic reviews of the state of maritime history suggest that there is a growing awareness of maritime enterprise as a discrete and productive specialty within the wider ambit of the historical discipline, and that practitioners of the subject are following ever-multiplying lines of inquiry. It is especially remarkable to consider how
- [Oceanus to Oceans: The Sea Affects All Things](https://www.global-geneva.com/oceanus-to-oceans-the-sea-affects-all-things/#new_tab) - Global Geneva 2019. According to the ancient Greeks, the earth was encompassed by a world ocean that was the source of all water on earth, salt and fresh, and personified by Oceanus. It is an arresting concept, and one that proved far ahead of its time. Even in the classical era, rationalist writers such as
- [Recognizing the Security Threat at Old River Control](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_167_summer-2019/7#new_tab) - [pdf-embedder url="https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2019/06/Paine-Old-River-Control-SH.pdf" title="Paine, Old River Control SH"]Sea History 167 (2019): 5–6. While visiting New Orleans in March, I persuaded three siblings and our father to join me on an expedition to visit the Old River Control structure between Lettsworth and Vidalia, Louisiana. If you want to get people to join you on an eight-hour field
- [Shaping the World Economy, and More](https://www.maritimefoundation.uk/publications/maritime-2018/shaping-the-world-economy-and-more/#new_tab) - Maritime 2018: How Do We Value the Oceans (2018): 3–5. There is nothing American about the quintessentially American Big Mac; its principal ingredients are alien to the western hemisphere. The wheat for its bun was domesticated in what is now Iraq; the cattle that supply its beef and cheese are native to Turkey; its garnishes
- [New Maps for These Territories: The Arctic Council Comes to Maine](https://issuu.com/bowdoinmagazine/docs/bowdoin-vol88-no2-winter17-issuu/2#new_tab) - Bowdoin Magazine 88:2 (2017): 20–25. Mental maps of the world sometimes change in a historical instant, as they did five hundred years ago with the establishment of permanent transatlantic and transpacific sailing routes. Most of the time, however, our worldview changes piecemeal and more modestly, through personal necessity or experience—from the opening of a new
- ["The Sunshine Skyway Collapse, May 9, 1980"](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-sunshine-skyway-collapse-may-9-1980/) - The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor in the early hours of March 26, 2024, has revived memories of a similar disaster that took place in Tampa Bay 44 years ago, when the bulk carrier Summit Venture, hit the Sunshine Skyway in St. Petersburg, Florida, resulting in the deaths of 35
- [NASOH Annotated Bibliography of Race, Class, Labor, and Gender in U.S. Maritime History](https://lincolnpaine.com/nasoh-annotated-bibliography-of-race-class-labor-and-gender-in-u-s-maritime-history/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2023/06/NASOH-DEI-Annotated-Bibliography-230530.pdf" title="NASOH DEI Annotated Bibliography 230530"]
- [Paine, "Over the Bounded Main"](https://lincolnpaine.com/paine-over-the-bounded-main/) - Any discussion about boundaries at sea has to begin with the question: How useful could such an arcane subject as maritime borders and border making possibly be to the study of world history? The short answer is: Very useful. In fact, the linguistic map of the world in the 21st century makes almost no sense
- [Review of Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Or-der in World War II by Paul Kennedy](https://lincolnpaine.com/review-of-victory-at-sea-naval-power-and-the-transformation-of-the-global-or-der-in-world-war-ii-by-paul-kennedy/) - Engelsberg Ideas June 17, 2022 When considering a new book on a topic as well-trod as the naval aspects of the Second World War, the first question that comes to mind is whether the world really needs another one. In the case of Paul Kennedy’s Victory at Sea, the answer is yes. [pdf-embedder url="https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2022/06/Paine_Review-of-Kennedy.pdf" title="Paine_Review of
- [A Sea-Change for the Classroom: Maritime Identities—Seas, Ships, and Sailors—the Law and Teaching World History](https://lincolnpaine.com/a-sea-change-for-the-classroom-maritime-identities-seas-ships-and-sailors-the-law-and-teaching-world-history/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2022/02/Paine-Sea-Change-for-the-Classroom-WHC-19.1.pdf" title="Paine, Sea Change for the Classroom WHC 19.1"]
- [World History Connected forum introduction — "Something Rich and Strange": Maritime Law in World History](https://lincolnpaine.com/something-rich-and-strange-maritime-law-in-world-history/) - [pdf-embedder url="https://lincolnpaine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2022/02/Paine-Sea-Change-intro-WHC-19.1.pdf" title="Paine, Sea Change intro WHC 19.1"]
- [Conversations from the Pointed Firs: “What is Maine? Who is Maine?”](https://lincolnpaine.com/conversations-from-the-pointed-firs-what-is-maine-who-is-maine/) - An interview with Peter Neill WERU Community Radio, December 3, 2012https://weru.s3.amazonaws.com/archives/2021/pf_20211203.mp3
- [Separated at Birth: The Estranged History of the First Centuries of American-Indian Relations](https://lincolnpaine.com/separated-at-birth-the-estranged-history-of-the-first-centuries-of-american-indian-relations/) - Vasant J. Sheth Memorial Lecture England’s efforts to colonize North America and India were born from the same impulse and at the same time. As early as the 1580s, the great apostle of English colonization Richard Hakluyt, Sr., thought of them in tandem, while the East India Company and the Virginia Company (whose employees established
- [Maritime Style Sheet (with NATO phonetic alphabet)](https://lincolnpaine.com/maritime-style-sheet-with-nato-phonetic-alphabet/) - The maritime world is filled with specialist vocabulary the conventional spelling of which is not always obvious. Boatswain/bosun and forecastle/focsle are among the best-known examples of words that have two accepted spellings, one etymologically correct, the other based on pronunciation. Another source of uncertainty is whether a term is one word or two, or hyphenated,
- [Review essay: Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will, by Judith Schalansky](https://worldoceanobservatory.org/files/WOJ-v2_FINAL.pdf) - World Ocean Journal 2 (2015): 16–23 According to one estimate, there are upwards of 8.8 million islands in the world. As Christian Depraetere, a leading practitioner of nissology (the study of islands) has put it, “islands are the rule rather than the exception.” From a nissological perspective, the visible land of our bluewater orb constitutes
- [Oceans and Seas in World Culture](/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2019/01/Paine-Oceans-and-Seas-in-World-Culture.pdf) - In The World’s Ocean: Culture, History, and the Environment, edited by Lance Nolde and Rainer F. Buschmann, 90–108. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio 2018. Culture comprises many elements, including beliefs, social norms, traditional customs, the arts, civic institutions, and collective achievements of people or societies, and people both shape culture and are shaped by it. In considering
- [Elements of Sea Power, Past and Present](/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2018/12/Paine-Elements-of-Sea-Power-2017.pdf) - In The Return of Geopolitics: Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2016, edited by Kurt Almqvist, Alexander Linklater, and Andrew Mackenzie. Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2017. One of the more pressing but unspoken geopolitical issues of our time has to do with the role of the United States as the world’s preeminent military
- [Connecting Past and Present: Maritime Museums and Historical Mission](/wp-content/uploads/sites/75/2016/11/PaineConnecting-Past-and-Present-Maritime-museums-and-historical-mission.pdf) - The Mariner’s Mirror 102:4 (2016): 388–99. The greatest challenge faced by maritime museums is how we make ourselves relevant in the twenty-first century. This is a problem that has three components, which we can characterize loosely as geography, chronology and theme or discipline. Foremost of these is, as they say in the real-estate world, location,
- [War Is Better Than Tribute](https://lincolnpaine.com/war-is-better-than-tribute-the-tripolitan-war-of-1801-1805/) - Naval History 15.3 (2001): 20–25. The war between the United States and Tripoli from 1801 to 1805 was the longest waged by the United States between the American Revolution and the Vietnam War. It was seven weeks longer than the Civil War and four months longer than U.S. involvement in World War II. Although neither
- [A Pax Upon You: Preludes and Perils of American Imperialism](https://www.academia.edu/9780955/Paine_A_Pax_Upon_You_Preludes_and_Perils_of_American_Imperialism_#new_tab) - Clio’s Psyche 10:3 (Dec. 2003): 91–99. The United States’ invasion of Iraq has given rise to a long overdue debate about whether the Republic has become an empire and, if so, of what kind. Those who view the United States as an imperial power usually point to the Roman or British empires as relevant or
- [Grace Notes on the Future of Maritime History](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/argonauta/pdf/argo_30_1.pdf#new_tab) - Argonauta 30:1 (2013): 8–11. Even without the threat of the Mayan apocalypse, which is upon me as I write, or whatever cosmic cataclysm looms ahead as you read this, anticipating the coming needs of maritime history seems a fraught exercise. It is difficult enough to make sense of the past, about which we know at
- [À l’origine de l’homme, la mer](https://www.institutjeanlecanuet.org/content/origine-de-homme-la-mer#new_tab) - France Forum, June 2015, 1–3. Les animaux terrestres sont apparus dans les océans, puis, venant des profondeurs de l’océan, ont grimpé sur la terre. Cette affirmation est un classique de la théorie de l’évolution. On a aussi découvert, plus récemment, que, grâce à une alimentation composée d’eau douce, de mollusques marins et d’autres espèces aquatiques
- [Review of The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt, by John P. Cooper](https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/index.html#new_tab) - The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord 26:1 (2016): 80–82 The opening of the Aswan High Dam in 1970 had a profound impact on the people and economy of Egypt, but its effect on our understanding of Egyptian history has been equally dramatic. Virtually every student learns that the Nile Valley drew its fertility and prosperity
- [Review of The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral, by Lakshmi Subramanian](https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/15.1/br_paine.html#new_tab) - World History Connected 15:1 (2018). The efforts of the East India Company (EIC) to consolidate its rule on the west coast of India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to a rise in piracy in the Northward. This was the name the British gave to a region that "comprised Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch
- [Review of The Sea in History/La mer dans l’histoire, edited by Christian Buchet, et al., 4 vols](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_167_summer-2019?e=32688319/70079270#new_tab) - Sea History 167 (2019): 61–62. The four-volume The Sea in History is the product of the Paris-based Association Océanides, which bills itself as a multidisciplinary project with three objectives: “to provide scientific proof that the oceans are at the heart of political, economic and social issues, to enhance the overall policy of the seas, and
- [Review of Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict that Made the Modern World, by Andrew Lambert](https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/10/01/book-review-seapower-states-maritime-culture-continental-empires-and-the-conflict-that-made-the-modern-world#new_tab) - USNI Blog, Oct. 1, 2019. Few subjects are more hotly debated by naval officers, policy makers, and historians than the strategic implications and definition of sea power, a concept first developed by the U.S. naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan in his pioneering work The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783.
- [Getting the Story Right](https://issuu.com/seahistory/docs/sh_172_autumn-2020?fr=sYTQ1OTM0NDk2MQ) - Sea History 172 (2020): 5. In June, the Maine Maritime Museum announced its plan “to consider how an institution such as ours can contribute to the dialogue about equity, inclusion, and justice, particularly by raising awareness of how Maine’s maritime enterprise has shaped and been shaped by issues of race, ethnicity, and gender.” Skeptics abound,
- [Review of Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, by Jonathan White](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-spirit-of-the-sea/) - Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2017. Open the door to a saltwater summer home and you’re apt to find a tide table—perhaps not for the right month or even the right year, but there it is, enumerating the ocean’s cadence with the dependability of a metronome. For those of us accustomed to man-made schedules, however, the tide’s a
- [The Fifty-week Book Tour](https://lincolnpaine.com/the-fifty-week-book-tour/) - This interview was conducted by the award-winning New Zealand maritime historian and author Joan Druett, who published it on her blog, World of the Written Word. I am grateful to Joan for the interview, and for her permission to repost it here. Wednesday, October 8, 2014—The Importance of Book Tours The statistics are impressive: 13 readings and signings at

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