David J. Starkey

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David John Starkey (born September 20, 1954 ) is a British historian specializing in 19th and 20th century maritime history. His main research interests are fisheries, maritime environmental history and piracy.

Career

Starkey studied economic history at the University of Leeds , and received his MA from the University of Exeter . In 1985 he received his PhD from the University of Exeter with a thesis on the history of piracy . He has been with the University of Hull since 1994 , where he was also founding director of the Maritime Historical Studies Center (MHSC). From 2011 to 2016 he was director of the Department of History at the University of Hull.

Starkey is one of the two co-presidents of the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA) and chairman of the British Commission for Maritime History. In 2013 he became editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Maritime History as one of the leading international scientific journals in the field of maritime history.

Others

In order to avoid confusion with the British historian and specialist in the history of the Tudor period, who is also called David Starkey, the shipping historian always publishes under the name David J. Starkey.

Publications

  • Starkey, David J .: British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth Century. Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1990, 344pp, ISBN 0-85989-312-X .
  • Starkey, David J., and ES van Eyck van Heslinga. Pirates and Privateers: New Perspectives on the War on Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997.
  • Starkey, David J. Shipping Movements in the Ports of the United Kingdom, 1871-1913: A Statistical Profile. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.
  • David J. Starkey, Jon Th. Thor, Ingo Heidbrink (Eds.): A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries: Vol. 1, From Early Times to the mid-Nineteenth Century. Hauschild u. German Maritime Museum. Bremen 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr David J Starkey . University of Hull. Archived from the original on March 31, 2009.
  2. ^ Professor David J Starkey | University of Hull. Retrieved November 28, 2018 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Starkey, David J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starkey, David John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1954