Australian Association for Maritime History

The Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH) is an Australian maritime history organisation.

History

The association was formed in May 1978. Its main aim is to promote the study,[1] publication,[2] and general appreciation of maritime history. The eminent American maritime historian John B. Hattendorf considers the AAMH one of the most prominent scholarly organisations in the English-speaking world [3] and the late Professor Frank Broeze of the University of Western Australia considered that the creation of the AAMH contributed to a rising awareness of the significance of the role of the sea to Australian cultural history.[4] The AAMH is not restricted to Australia and Australian maritime history: its membership and field of interest are international in scope. The AAMH is run by an Executive Council that has officers from all Australian States and Territories. It is currently based in Perth, Western Australia.

The AAMH served as the Australian sub-commission of the International Commission of Maritime History until the ICMH merged with the International Economic Maritime History Association to form the International Maritime History Association in 2016.[5] The AAMH also supports lectures,[6] conferences,[7] workshops, publications and book prizes.

Maritime Book Prizes

The AAMH co-sponsors with the Australian National Maritime Museum, the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Prize awarded for a book treating any aspect of maritime history relating to or impacting on Australia and the Australian Community Maritime History Prize awarded to a regional or local museum or historical society for a publication (book, booklet, educational resource kit, CD, DVD or other media) relating to an aspect of maritime history of that region or community.[8]

The Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History book prize is named in honour of Frank Broeze. Professor Frank Broeze was a maritime historian [9] and one of the founders of AAMH. He served as President of the Association in the 1980s and was the first editor of the Association's journal The Great Circle.[10]

The objective of the prizes is to promote a broad view of maritime history that demonstrates how the sea and maritime influences have been more central to the shaping of regions that encompass Australia; that is, the Indian, Pacific and Great Southern Oceans. The AAMH encourages this historical and archaeological approach of investigation and disemmination through its journal.[11]

There are two categories: the Maritime History Book Prize for commercially published books and the Australian Community Maritime History Prize for works (books, DVDs, pamphlets etc.) by a locally based organisation.

The Great Circle

The Great Circle is the Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History.[12] The Great Circle (ISSN 0156-8698) is a refereed journal and is published twice a year. The journal is archived on JSTOR.[13]

Quarterly Newsletter

The Australian Association of Maritime History’s quarterly newsletter was established by Vaughan Evans [14](a founding member of the AAMH) in 1980, two years after the formation of the Association itself.[15] Both these events came at a time when the field of maritime history was in its infancy in Australia.

References

  1. ↑ University of Western Australia. University Extension, Australian Association for Maritime History, and Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology. "Sailing Ships & Sailing People, Seafaring Throughout the Ages: A Joint Conference of the Australian Association for Maritime History and the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology in Association with a Series of Public Lectures by International Seafaring Personalitites." (1987)
  2. ↑ Australian Association for Maritime History, and International Maritime Economic History Association. A Bibliography of University Theses on Australian Maritime History. St. John's, Nfld.: Published for the Australian Association for Maritime History by the International Maritime Economic History Association, 1996.
  3. ↑ John B. Hattendorf (2012)Maritime History Today in Perspectives on History http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2012/1202/Maritime-History-Today.cfm
  4. ↑ Frank Broeze 1998 Island Nation: a history of Australians and the sea Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW
  5. ↑ Ingo Heidbrink post on International Maritime History Association LinkedIn Group
  6. ↑ Quarterly newsletter (Australian Association for Maritime History) Issue 128 summer 2012/2013
  7. ↑ http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/bibliography/new-directions-maritime-history-papers-presented-conference-organised-australian-associ
  8. ↑ Signals Number 101 December 2012 p66 Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
  9. ↑ Broeze, Frank, 1998, Island Nation: a history of Australians and the sea. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, N.S.W.
  10. ↑ Obituary History Cut Short in The University of Western Australia News 23 April 2001
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
  13. ↑ JSTOR is a digital library for scholarly publications http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aamh
  14. ↑ Quarterly Newsletter Issue 127 Spring 2012 page 4
  15. ↑ Quarterly Newsletter Issue 126 June 2012

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