This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle Ages to the present. The spatial emphasis of the essays is north European and Atlantic since they deal with the countries around the North Sea and Baltic with some coverage of...

Background to the present situation / Bruce W. Davis -- Antarctic mineral and maritime resources / F.G. Larminie -- International scientific cooperation in Antarctica / D.J. Drewry -- An Australian perspective / J. Bleasel -- A British perspective / A.D. Watts -- Political challenges to the...