Thesis in the Maritime History Research Collection
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Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene. "The Cod Trade in Early-Modern Portugal: Deregulation, English Domination, and the Decline of Female Cod Merchants." PhD Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1996.
Andresen, Karen E. "The Layered Society: Material Life in Portsmouth, NH, 1680-1740." PhD Thesis,University of New Hampshire, 1982.
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Balcom, Berton A. "Production and Marketing in Nova Scotia's Dried Fish Trade, 1850-1914." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1981.
Barrett, L. Gene. "Development and Underdevelopment and the Rise of Trade Unionism in the Fishing Industry of Nova Scotia, 1900-1950." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1976.
Baughman, James P. "The Maritime and Railroad Interests of Charles Morgan, 1837-1885: A History of the 'Morgan Line.'" PhD Thesis, Tulane University, 1962.
Bell, Herbert Clifford. "Studies in the Trade Relations of British West Indies and North America, 1763-1773, 1783-1793." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1909.
Beetham Fisher, Anita Loy "The Merchants of Medieval Bristol 1350-1500." PhD Thesis, University of Oregon, 1987.
Bentinck-Smith, Joan. "The Forcing Period: A Study of the American Merchant Marine, 1914-1917." PhD Thesis, Radcliffe College, 1958.
Blume, Kenneth John. "The Mid-Atlantic Arena: The United States, the Confederacy, and the British West Indies, 1861-1865." PhD Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1984.
Bogert, Elva. "Austro-Hungarian Maritime Trade with the Ottoman Empire, 1873-1895." PhD Thesis, Tufts University, 1976.
Bowling, Roland Alfred. "The Negative Influence of Mahan on the Protection of Shipping in Wartime: The Convoy Controversy in the Twentieth Century." PhD Thesis, University of Maine, 1980.
Bradley, David Gordon. "'Smugglers, Schemers, Scoundrels, and Sleeveens': An Analysis of Merchant-Client Relations at Bonavista, Newfoundland, 1875-1895." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994.
Butler, George Frederic. "Commercial Relations of Nova Scotia with the United States, 1783-1830." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1934.
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Cadigan, Sean T. "Economic and Social Relations of Production on the Northeast-Coast of Newfoundland, with Special Reference to Conception Bay, 1785-1855." PhD Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991.
Cell, Gillian T. "The English in Newfoundland, 1577-1660." PhD Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1964.
Chang, Margaret Ann. "Newfoundland in Transition: The Newfoundland Trade and Robert Newman and Company, 1780-1805." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1975.
Chapman, James K. "Relations of Maine and New Brunswick in the Era of Reciprocity, 1849-1867." MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1951.
Chard, Donald F. "'Pagans', Privateers, and Propagandists: New England-Acadia Relations, 1690-1710." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1967.
Chiles, Frederic Caire. "War on the Waterfront: The Struggles of the San Francisco Longshoremen, 1851-1934." PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Clements, Joyce Maxine. "The San Francisco Maritime and General Strikes of 1934 and the Dynamics of Repression." PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
Cohen, Ira. "The Auction System in the Port of New York, 1817-1837." PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
Creighton, Margaret Scott. "The Private Life of Jack Tar: Sailors at Sea in the Nineteenth Century." PhD Thesis, Boston University, 1985.
Crowther, Simeon J. "The Shipbuilding Industry and the Economic Development of the Delaware Valley, 1681-1776." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Crutchfield, Stephen R. "Management of Foreign Fishing Rights: Theory and Policy." PhD Thesis, Yale University, 1980.
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Davies, G.J. "England and Newfoundland: Policy and Trade 1660-1783." PhD Thesis, University of Southampton, 1980.
Deardorff, Neva Ruth. "English Trade in the Baltic During the Reign of Elizabeth." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1911.
Dotson, John Edward. "Freight Rates and Shipping Practices in the Medieval Mediterranean." PhD Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 1969.
Durel, John W. "From Strawberry Bank to Puddle Dock: The Evolution of a Neighborhood, 1630-1850." PhD Thesis, University of New Hampshire, 1984.
Dwyer, Allan. "An Economic Profile of Fogo Island Planters and the Slade Merchant Company, 1785-1805." MA Thesis, McGill University, 1989.
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Elkins, Wilson H. "British Policy in its Relation to the Commerce and Navigation of the United States of America from 1794 to 1807." PhD Thesis, Oxford University, 1936.
Eydal, Astvaldur. "Some Geographical Aspects of the Fisheries of Iceland." PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 1963.
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Farr, James Barker. "Black Odyssey: The Seafaring Traditions of Afro-Americans." PhD Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Fitzgerald, Donald. "A History of Containerization in the California Maritime Industry: The Case of San Francisco." PhD Thesis, University of California, 1986.
Forward, Charles N. "The Shipping Trade of Newfoundland." PhD Thesis, Clark University, 1965.
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Gallagher, Delbert W. "The Commercial Fisheries of New Brunswick, 1926-1953." MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1955.
Gerson, Armand J. "The Organization and Early History of the Muscoby Company." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1910.
Glerum-Laurentius, Dicky. "A History of Dutch Activity in the Newfoundland Fish Trade From About 1590 Till About 1680." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1960.
Gribbin, Joseph Anthony. "An Analysis of Cyclical and Other Fluctuations in Commercial Shipbuilding in the United States, 1950-1974." PhD Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1977.
Goldenberg, Joseph A. "The Shipbuilding Industry in Colonial America." PhD Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1968.
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Hearne, Thomas Richard. "The Sea Hunters: A Study of an Artisanal Fishery in Western Brittany." PhD Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1978.
Hirshfield, Deborah Ann. "Rosie Also Welded: Women and Technology in Shipbuilding During World War Two." PhD Thesis, University of California, 1987.
Hoffman, Lynn Francis. "The Myth of the Maritime Culture." PhD Thesis, Syracuse University, 1973.
Houk, Richard Joseph. "The Portuguese Maritime Fishing Industry." PhD Thesis, Northwestern University, 1950.
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Jackson, Scott Thomas. "Impressment and Anglo-American Discord, 1787-1818." PhD Thesis, University of Michigan, 1976.
Jester, Roger E. "Fisheries and the State: A Study of Some Aspects of Resource Conservation and Government Policy in England, 1860-1902." PhD Thesis, New York University, 1971.
Johnson, Arthur L. "Boston and the Maritimes: A Century of Steam Navigation." PhD Thesis, University of Maine, Orono, 1971.
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Kelly, Tim Kenneth. "The Commercial Fishery of Washington." PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 1946.
Keough, Glenn John. "Economic Factors and Privateering at Newfoundland during the War of 1812." MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1995.
Kepler, Jon S. "The International Entrepot at Dover, 1622-1651: A Staple for the Taxation of English Neutral Shipping during the Thirty Years' War." PhD Thesis, University of Kansas, 1972.
Kesselman, Amy Vita. "Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver during World War II and Reconversion." PhD Thesis, Cornell University, 1985.
Knauerhase, Ramon. "The Compound Marine Steam Engine: A Study in the Relationship Between Technological Change and Economic Development." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1967.
Kunhikannan, Palangadan. "A Down East Fishing Community: The Processes of Transformation." PhD Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984.
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Laing, Lionel H. "Merchant Shipping Legislation and Admiralty Jurisdiction in Canada." PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1935.
Levitt, James Haskell. "New Jersey Shipping, 1722-1764: A Statistical Study." PhD Thesis, University of Utah, 1973.
Liguori, Victor Armand. "Stability and Change in the Social Structure of Atlantic Coast Commercial Fisheries." PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 1968.
Lund, Jens. "Fishing as a Folk Occupation in the Lower Ohio Valley." PhD Thesis, Indiana University, 1983.
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MacDonald, David Anthony. "Really No Merchant: An Ethnohistorical Account of Newman and Company and the Supplying System in the Newfoundland Fishery at Harbour Breton, 1850-1900." PhD Thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1988.
MacDougall, I.L. "Commercial Relations Between Nova Scotia and the United States of America, 1830-1854." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1961.
Maple, John Thomas. "The Irish Sea Region, 850-1254 A.D." PhD Thesis, University of Kansas, 1985.
Mathews, Edwin Frederick John. "Economic History of Poole, 1756-1815." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1958.
McCay, Bonnie Jean. "'Appropriate Technology' and Coastal Fishermen of Newfoundland." PhD Thesis, Columbia University, 1976.
McDevitt, Joseph Lawrence. "The House of Rotch: Whaling Merchants of Massachusetts, 1734-1828." PhD Thesis, American University, 1978.
McDonald, Ian. "W.F. Coaker and the Fishermen's Protective Union in Newfoundland Politics, 1908-1925." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1971.
McEvoy, Arthur F. "Economy, Law and Ecology in the California Fisheries to 1925." PhD Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 1979.
McGahan, Elizabeth Moore Walsh. "The Port in the City: Saint John, NB (1867-1911) and the Process of Integration." PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1979.
McKee, Marguerite Miller. "The Ship Subsidy Question in United States Politics." Thesis (A.M.), Smith College, 1922.
Mellin, Gilbert Myer. "The Mississippi Shipping Company: A Case Study in the Development of Gulf Coast-South American and West African Shipping, 1919-1953." PhD Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1955.
Mercer, Malcolm J. "Relations between Nova Scotia and New England, 1815-1867, with Special Reference to Trade and the Fisheries." MA Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1938.
Mergen, Bernard Matthew. "A History of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, 1933-1951." PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Merrifield, Edward F. "The Seaboard War: A History of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-1865." PhD Thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 1975.
Millard, A.M. "The Import Trade of London, 1600-1640." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1956.
Mood, Fulmer. "The Influence of Robert Thorne Upon English Maritime Expansion, 1527-1607." PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1929.
Moore, Christopher. "Merchant Trade in Louisbourg, Ile Royale." PhD Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1977.
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Nelson, Joseph Bruce. "Maritime Unionism and Working-Class Consciousness in the 1930's." PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
Newell, John Philip. "Spring and Summer Sea Ice and Climate Conditions in the Labrador Sea, 1800-Present." PhD Thesis, University of Colorado, 1990.
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O'Leary, Wayne M. "The Maine Sea Fisheries, 1830-1890: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry." PhD Thesis, University of Maine, 1981.
Orchardson, Ian Kipkerui. "Sir William Mackinnon, Shipowner, 1823-1893." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1970.
Orr, Jeffrey Aurdon. "Scottish Merchants in the Newfoundland Trade, 1800-1835: A Colonial Community in Transition." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987.
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Padgett, Herbert Ryals. "The Marine Shellfisheries of Louisiana." PhD Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1960.
Peebles, Robert Houston. "Technology as a Factor in the Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Industry, 1900-1945." PhD Thesis, North Texas State University, 1980.
Pfaff, John Francis. "An Investigation of the Investment in the British Coastal Shipping Industry 1775-1790." PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 1976.
Phillips, Glenn O.I. "The Changing Role of the Merchant Class in the British West Indies, 1834-1867." PhD Thesis, Howard University, 1976.
Pritchard, James S. "Ships, Men and Commerce: A Study of Maritime Activity in New France." PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1971.
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Redard, Thomas E. "The Port of New Orleans: An Economic History, 1821-1860." PhD Thesis , Louisiana State University, 1985.
Redding, Forest William. "Sharing the Living Resources of the Sea: An Analysis of Contemporary American-Canadian Fisheries Relations." PhD Thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1979.
Rediker, Marcus Buford. "Society and Culture Among Anglo-American Deep Sea Sailors, 1700-1750 " PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1982.
Reid, Alastair J. "The Division of Labour in the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1920 with Special Reference to Clydeside." PhD Thesis. Cambridge University, 1980.
Rice, Richard. "Shipbuilding in British America, 1787-1890: An Introductory Study." PhD Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1971.
Robertson, Paul. "The Management of Manpower in British Shipbuilding, 1870-1914: A Study in the Organization of Human Resources Under Conditions of Changing Technology." PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
Robinson, Robert H. "Impact of Public Policy on the Shipbuilding-Shiprepair Industry in the United States, 1950-1972." PhD Thesis, Washington State University, 1973.
Roe, Myong J. "Public International Law and Fisheries Interests of Selected Commonwealth States, 1938-1960." PhD Thesis, Duke University, 1969.
Rosenberg, Daniel. "Race, Labor and Unionism: New Orleans Dockworkers, 1900-1910." PhD Thesis, City University of New York, 1985.
Rothney, Gordon Oliver. "British Policy in the North American Cod Fisheries with Special Reference to Foreign Competition, 1776-1819." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1939.
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Saguier, Eduardo Ricardo. "The Uneven Incorporation of Buenos Aires into World Trade Early in the Seventeenth Century ,1602-42: The Impact of Commercial Capitalism Under the Iberian Mercantilism of the Hapsburgs." PhD Thesis, Washington University, 1982.
Sanger, Chesley W. "The Origins of the Scottish Northern Whale Fishery." PhD Thesis, University of Dundee, 1985.
Schaeffer, Robert Keith. "The Chains of Bondage Broke: The Proletarianization of Seafaring Labor, 1600-1800." PhD Thesis, State University of New York at Binghampton, 1984.
Smith, Marjorie. "Newfoundland, 1815-1840: A Study of a Merchantocracy." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1968.
Snyder, James W. "The Early American China Trade: A Maritime History of its Establishment, 1783-1815." PhD Thesis, New York University, 1939.
Sommers, Lawrence Melvin. "The Norwegian Fishing Industry as Exemplified by More og Romsdal." PhD Thesis, Northwestern University, 1950.
Steinberg, Charles. "Collective Bargaining Rights in the Canadian Sea Fisheries: A Case Study of Nova Scotia." PhD Thesis, Columbia University, 1973.
Swiger, Ernest Cullimore, Jr. "The Big Markets of the Old World: Canadian Commercial Relations with Europe, 1896-1914." PhD Thesis, Duke University, 1975.
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Ullman, Edward Louis. "Mobile: Industrial Seaport and Trade Center." PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, 1943.
Unger, Richard Watson. "The Rise of the Dutch Shipbuilding Industry, 1400-1600." PhD Thesis, Yale University, 1971.
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Vickers, Daniel. "Maritime Labor in Colonial Massachusetts: A Case Study of the Essex County Cod Fishery and Whaling Industry of Nantucket, 1630-1775." PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 1981.
Ville, Simon P. "Michael Henley and Son, London Shipowners 1775-1830: With Special Reference to the Wartime Experience." PhD Thesis, University of London, 1984.
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Walsh, Vince. "'Up Through the Hawse Hole': The Social Origins and Lives of Salem Shipmasters, 1640-1720." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1996.
Walton, Gary M. "A Quantitative Study of American Colonial Shipping." PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 1966.
Whitehurst, Clinton H. "The Case for Competition in American Ocean Shipping: A Critique of Government Subsidy Policy, 1936-1959." PhD Thesis, University of Virginia, 1962.
Willet, Donald Edward. "Joe Curran and the National Maritime Union, 1936-1945." PhD Thesis, Texas A & M University, 1985.
Williams, Brian G. "An Ethnohistorical Study of Fisher-Merchant Relationships in Burin, Newfoundland." MA Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994.
Worsley, Stephen. "An Investigation of the Shipping Trade Between Ireland and England in the Eighteenth Century." PhD Thesis, University of Washington, 1968.
Wright C.P. "The Origins and Early Years of the Transatlantic Packet Ships of New York, 1817 - 1835." PhD Thesis, Harvard University, 1932.
Wright, Richard J. "Freshwater Whales: A History of the American Ship Building Company and its Predecessors." PhD Thesis, Kent State University, 1968.
Wright, Thomas. "Ship Hydrodynamics, 1710-1880." PhD Thesis, University of Manchester, 1983.