Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India

Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India

Author: K.S. Mathew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-09

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1351588338

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India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated volume.


The Application of the High Seas Regime in the Exclusive Economic Zone

The Application of the High Seas Regime in the Exclusive Economic Zone

Author: Frank-Luke Matthew Attard Camilleri

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0761869514

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This book is about the applicability of the high seas regime in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). It analyses all the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and goes in depth about the very interesting and complex relationship that exists between the high seas and the EEZ. This book examines three cardinal freedoms of the sea: freedom of navigation, freedom of overflight, and freedom to lay submarine cables and pipelines.


Empire and Legal Thought

Empire and Legal Thought

Author: Edward Cavanagh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9004431241

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Together, the chapters in Empire and Legal Thought make the case for seeing the history of international legal thought and empires against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes over thousands of years.


Promoting Sustainable Fisheries

Promoting Sustainable Fisheries

Author: Mary Ann E. Palma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 900417575X

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Analyses the concept of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and the international instruments which provide the legal and policy framework to combat IUU fishing. Palma, Tsamenyi and Edeson, University of Wollongong, Australia.