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Richard W. Unger.
The Ship in the Medieval Economy: 600-1600.

Published London: Croom Helm/McGill Queen’s U.P., 1980.
ISBN 085664949X/0773505261.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by Redwood Burn.
Size: 144×220×20mm.
Page count: 304pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib. Manchester Metropolitan University; this copy has some general wear on its dustjacket; pages somewhat yellowed with age; the usual library marks & stamps, but appears to be free of readers’ marks.


This item £25.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[ACLS paperback in print at $46.00]
Weight without packaging: 533g.

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Contents: Intro. — the economy & technical change; Loss of Roman ways, 600-750; Vikings & Byzantines, 750-1000; Crusaders’ ships & cogs, 1000-1250; Cogs, hulks & great galleys, 1250-1400; The great invention, 1400-1550; Warships, cargo ships & cannon, 1550-1600.

Illustrations: 27 monochrome illustrations
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 16pp
Index: yes

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