Table of Contents

Lars U. Scholl, "Introduction" / vii-xxv Peter N. Davies, "David Malcolm Williams: A Tribute from an Old Friend" / xxvii-xxxvii Lewis R. Fischer, "David M. Williams and the Writing of Modern Maritime History" / xxxix-xlix Contributions David M. Williams, "Abolition and the Re-Deployment of the Slave Fleet, 1807-1811" / 1-17 David M. Williams, "Liverpool Merchants and the Cotton Trade 1820-1850" / 19-51 David M. Williams, "The Shipping of the North Atlantic Cotton Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" / 53-79 David M. Williams, "Merchanting in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Liverpool Timber Trade" / 81-108 David M. Williams, "James Silk Buckingham: Sailor, Explorer and Maritime Reformer" / 109-126 David M. Williams, "State Regulations of Merchant Shipping 1839-1914: The Bulk Carrying Trades" / 127-155 David M. Williams, "Custom Evasion, Colonial Preference and the British Tariff, 1829-1842" / 157-183 David M. Williams, "Bulk Passenger Freight Trades, 1750-1870" / 185-207 David M. Williams, "Henry Mayhew and the British Seaman" / 209-228 David M. Williams, "Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Seamen and Maritime Reform: The Society for Improving the Condition of Merchant Seamen, 1867" / 229-252 David M. Williams, " 'Advance Notes' and the Recruitment of Maritime Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth Century" / 253-272 David M. Williams, "The Quality, Skill and Supply of Maritime Labour: Causes of Concern in Britain, 1850-1914" / 273-292 Lars U. Scholl, "David M. Williams: A Bibliography" / 293-298