Richard W. Unger (born in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1942) is an

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professor of

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at the

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and a specialist in European

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in the medieval period. He served as Second Vice-President of the

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in 2011, First Vice-President in 2012, and President in 2013.

Publications

* ''Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries'' (1973) * ''Dutch Shipbuilding before 1800: Ships and Guilds'' (1978) * ''The Ship in the Medieval Economy, 600-1600'' (1980) * ''The Art of Medieval Technology: Images of Noah the Shipbuilder'' (1991) * ''Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400-1800'' (1997) * ''A History of Brewing in Holland, 900-1900'' (2001) * ''Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'' (2004) * ''Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe'' (2010) * ''Shipping and Economic Growth, 1350-1850'' (2011) * with Robert Allen
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References

American maritime historians American medievalists Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Living people 1942 births Historians of the Netherlands Historians of the Dutch Republic Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America {{US-historian-stub