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Richard Unger's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Richard W. Unger is a professor of Medieval History at the University of British Columbia and a specialist in European maritime history in the medieval period. He served as Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011, First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.

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The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500–1815. By Jan de Vries and, Ad van der Woude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xx+767. $89.95. (2000) (218)
The Ship in the Medieval Economy, 600-1600 (1982) (79)
Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2004) (74)
Shipping and economic growth 1350-1850 (2011) (49)
Archaeology of the boat (1976) (44)
Studies in Medieval and renaissance history (1966) (44)
Feeding Low Countries towns: the grain trade in the fifteenth century. (1999) (36)
Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: The Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066-1500 (1988) (35)
Dutch Herring, Technology, and International Trade in the Seventeenth Century (1980) (33)
Dutch shipbuilding before 1800 (1978) (29)
Cogs, Caravels, and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650 (1999) (25)
Dutch Shipbuilding before 1800: Ships and Guilds (1980) (24)
A History of Brewing in Holland, 900–1900: Economy, Technology and the State. By Richard W. Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xxii, 428. €140, $154.00. (2003) (21)
Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries: Byzantium, Islam, and the West, 500-1300 (2005) (21)
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008) (21)
The Tonnage of Europe’s Merchant Reets 1300-1800 (2019) (19)
Labour Productivity in Ocean Shipping, 1450–1875 (2000) (18)
The Art of Medieval Technology: Images of Noah the Shipbuilder (1991) (15)
Integration of Baltic and Low Countries Grain Markets, 1400–1800 (1983) (14)
Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth Century (2011) (13)
Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe (2010) (12)
The Development of the Rudder: A Technological Tale (1997) (11)
Trading Companies in Asia, 1600-1830. (1987) (10)
Chapter One. Shipping, Productivity And Economic Growth (2011) (10)
The Netherlands Herring Fishery in the Late Middle Ages: The False Legend of Willem Beukels of Biervliet (2019) (10)
The Ship in the Medieval Economy, 600-1600. (1981) (9)
Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1973) (8)
Dutch Nautical Sciences in the Golden Age: the Portuguese Influence (2011) (8)
Seeing the World Anew: The radical vision of Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 & 1516 world maps (2013) (7)
Technology and Industrial Organization: Dutch Shipbuilding to 1800 (1975) (7)
Ships on Maps (2010) (7)
Warships and Cargo Ships in Medieval Europe (1981) (6)
Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400-1800 (2020) (6)
Kings ’ Sagas and Norwegian History Problems and Perspectives (2015) (6)
Britain and Poland-Lithuania : contact and comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 (2006) (6)
War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Conclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power (2002) (5)
The Allen-Unger Global Commodity Prices Database (2019) (5)
5. The Technology and Teaching of Shipbuilding, 1300-1800 (2013) (5)
WARSHIPS, CARGO SHIPS AND ADAM SMITH: TRADE AND GOVERNMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (2006) (5)
Working on Labor (2012) (5)
Technical Change in the Brewing Industry in Germany,the Low Countries and England in the Late Middle Ages (1992) (4)
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: The services sector (2010) (4)
Britain and Poland-Lithuania (2008) (3)
Beer production, profits, and public authorities in the renaissance. (2011) (3)
Hölderlin's major poetry: The dialectics of unity (1975) (2)
L’Age d’or des cartes marines: Quand l’Europe découvrait le monde (2014) (2)
Chapter Ten. Ship Design And Energy Use, 1350–1875 (2011) (2)
Alfred Thayer Mahan, Ship Design, and the Evolution of Sea Power in the Late Middle Ages (1997) (2)
FOUR DORDRECHT SHIPS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (1975) (1)
Marine Paintings and the History of Shipbuilding (2019) (1)
Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy (2018) (1)
Regulation and Organization of Seamen in the Netherlands and Germany before the Industrial Revolution (2019) (1)
Channelling violence at sea: States, international trade and the transformation of naval forces from the high Middle Ages to the age of steam (2019) (1)
Shifting Energy Sources in Canada: An International Comparison, 1870–2000 (2018) (1)
La politique navale des ducs de Bourgogne, 1384-1482.Jacques Paviot (1997) (1)
Overview. Trades, Ports and Ships: The Roots of Difference in Sailors’ Lives (2015) (1)
Brewing in the Low Countries. (Proceedings Tenth International Economic History Congress Leuven, August 1990) (1990) (1)
Commerce, Communication, and Empire: Economy, Technology and Cultural Encounters (2015) (1)
Ships and sailing routes in maritime trade around Europe 1300–1600 (2017) (1)
Technology and Society in the Medieval Centuries: Byzantium, Islam, and the West, 500-1300. Pamela O. Long (2005) (1)
TRADE, TAXATION, AND GOVERNMENT POLICY IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (2015) (1)
Chapter 13. Guilds, Brewery Workers, and Work in Breweries (2004) (1)
Shipping and Western European Economic Growth in the Late Renaissance: Potential Connections1 (2006) (1)
English energy consumption and the impact of the Black Death* (2018) (1)
The View from Below: On Energy in Soils (and Food) (2014) (1)
Chapter 10. The Mature Industry: Capital Investment and Innovation (2004) (0)
Sources of food supplies for European capitals in the eighteenth century : Approvvigionamento e ordine pubblico nelle città capitali (2000) (0)
Markets and Merchants: Commercial and Cultural Integration in Northwest Europe, 1300-1700 (2019) (0)
Dutch Shipcarpenters' Guilds, C. 1400 To C. 1600 * (2019) (0)
Wooden Shipbuilding in Zeeland (2019) (0)
Chapter 3. Urbanization and the Rise of Commercial Brewing (2004) (0)
The rise of the Dutch shipbuilding industry, ca. 1400-ca. 1600 (1971) (0)
The Baltic: A History. By Michael North. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 427. $39.95, cloth (2017) (0)
Mills in the Medieval Economy: England, 1300-1540 (review) (2005) (0)
Chapter 11. Types of Beer and Their International Exchange (2004) (0)
Overview. Trades, Ports and Ships (2015) (0)
Chapter 8. The Mature Industry: Levels of Consumption (2004) (0)
Trial Balloons (1975) (0)
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus.William D. Phillips, Jr. , Carla Rahn Phillips (1993) (0)
M. Prak, C. Lis, J. Lucassen, Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries. Work, Power and Representation (2008) (0)
The Classical Revival, Printing and Maps (2010) (0)
Workshop on the History of Science and Technology: University of British Columbia, October 1971 (1972) (0)
The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy by Francesca Fiorani (2006) (0)
Le Berry du Xe siècle au milieu du XIIIe: Étude politique, religieuse, sociale et économique by Guy Devailly (review) (2016) (0)
Wooden Shipbuilding at Dordrecht 1 (2019) (0)
Histoire des pêches maritimes en France ed. by Michel Mollat (review) (2016) (0)
McGill RedDogs (1999) (0)
"Money don't get everything, that's true, but what it don't get, I can't use; I need money, that's what I want" (1963) (0)
Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding the History of Brewing (2004) (0)
Making Maps without Ships, with Ships (2010) (0)
Shipping in the Northern Netherlands 1490-1580 (2019) (0)
Richard W. Unger Talks Ships, Beer, and Shop for Today’s Historians (2020) (0)
ANSWERS (2000) (0)
6. Maritime transport and the integration of Low Countries grain markets in the Late Middle Ages (2012) (0)
Chapter 12. Taxes and Protection (2004) (0)
War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: List of illustrations (2002) (0)
Mcgill Reddogs Computational Soccer Archi- Tecture Mcgill-reddogs (1999) (0)
Afterthoughts (2019) (0)
Chapter 14. Epilogue: The Decline of Brewing (2004) (0)
Beer and Taxes (2022) (0)
War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Acknowledgements (2002) (0)
Iberian Influence in Southern Europe (2010) (0)
A Comparison of Autonomous Agent Architectures (1998) (0)
Eric Christensen. The Northern Crusades. The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier, 1100-1525. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980. xii, 273 pp. cloth $25.00; paper $10.95. (1982) (0)
Book Review: The Ship, The Century before Steam: The Development of the Sailing Ship, 1700–1820, Channel Packets and Ocean Liners, 1850–1970, The Life and Death of the Merchant Sailing Ship 1815–1965 (1982) (0)
Four Dordrecht Ships of the Sixteenth Century 1 (2019) (0)
Brewing Science: Technology and Print, 1700–1880 by James Sumner (review) (2015) (0)
Jake V. T. Knoppers. Dutch Trade with Russia From the Time of Peter I to Alexander I: A Quantitative Study in Eighteenth Century Shipping. Montreal: Interuniversity Centre for European Studies, 1976. Three volumes. Vol. I. 405 pp. $15.50 (paper). (1978) (0)
Ships and shipping technology (2020) (0)
The Ship in the Medieval Economy: 600-1600 (1982) (0)
The maritime war in the Mediterranean, 13th–15th centuries (2017) (0)
Bo Poulsen, Global Marine Science and Carlsberg: The Golden Connections of Johannes Schmitdt (1877-1933) (2018) (0)
BEER IN EASTERN EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES (1999) (0)
Grain, Beer and Shipping in the North and Baltic Seas 1 (2019) (0)
Dutch Design Specialization and Building Methods in the Seventeenth Century (2019) (0)
Design and Construction of European Warships in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
CHARLESTON COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD 2014-2015 (2015) (0)
Income Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century (2012) (0)
Chapter 9. The Mature Industry: Technology (2004) (0)
Boris Fedorovich Porshnev. Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War, 1630-1635. Translated by Brian Pearce. Edited by Paul Dukes. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xxi, 256 pp. $64.95. (1997) (0)
Medieval The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires c. 800–1650. By G. V. Scammell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 538. $35.00 (1983) (0)
Admiralties and Warships of Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-1500 (2019) (0)
Medieval Frontier: Culture and Ecology in Rijnland. By William H. TeBrake. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. xiv + 293 pp. Maps, footnotes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $23.50) (1987) (0)
OAKLAND PUBLIC ETHICS COMMISSION SEEKS CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSIONER POSITION (2016) (0)
An economic and social history of later medieval Europe, 1000–1500 – By Steven A. Epstein (2009) (0)
The Burgundian Netherlands. Walter Prevenier , Wim Blockmans , Peter King , Yvette Mead , Richard Vaughan (1988) (0)
Chapter 7. The Mature Industry: Levels of Production (2004) (0)
Introduction: Maps and Mapping (2010) (0)
Ships, Geography, and Humanism (2010) (0)
Proposed Use of Patrol Rifles in a Small, Heavily Populated City (2000) (0)
Chapter 2. Early Medieval Brewing (2004) (0)
Appendix. On Classification and Measurement (2004) (0)
Chapter 4. Hopped Beer, Hanse Towns, and the Origins of the Trade in Beer (2004) (0)
Book Review: The North Sea World: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe in the Middle Ages (2002) (0)
Chapter 6. The Spread of Hopped Beer Brewing: The Southern Low Countries, England, and Scandinavia (2004) (0)
The Dutch Coal Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
Commerce before capitalism in Europe, 1300–1600 – By Martha C. Howell (2012) (0)
Portuguese Shipbuilding and the Early Voyages to the Guinea Coast (2019) (0)
Northern Ships and the Late Medieval Economy: Columbus and the Medieval Maritime Tradition (2019) (0)
Chapter 5. The Spread of Hopped Beer Brewing: The Northern Low Countries (2004) (0)
The Technical Development of Shipbuilding and Government Policies in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2019) (0)
New Routes and Portuguese Map Makers (2010) (0)
Bo Poulsen, Dutch Herring. An Environmental History, c. 1600-1860 (2010) (0)
Northern Europe and Southern Practices (2010) (0)
Selling Dutch Ships in the Sixteenth Century 1 (2019) (0)
12.03.21, Sobecki, The Sea and Englishness In the Middle Ages (2012) (0)
Portolans and the Late Medieval Transition (2010) (0)
Mapping before the Renaissance (2010) (0)
David Nicholas, The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent . Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Pp. x, 261; 12 tables, map. $26.50. (1987) (0)
Wendy R. Childs,Trade and Shipping in the Medieval West: Portugal, Castile and England. (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge 70.) Porto: Fédération internationale des instituts d’études médiévales, 2013. Pp. 187; 15 black-and-white figures and 6 tables. €35. ISBN: 978-2-503-55128-9. (2015) (0)

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