Lincoln Paine

President
Northeast Regional World History Association

An editor by profession, Paine turned to writing maritime history after fourteen years correcting
other people’s prose for Oxford University Press, The Free Press, New York Times Almanac and
Facts On File. Paine’s first book, Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (Houghton
Mifflin, 1997), was named one of Library Journal’s “Best Reference Sources, 1997,” and the
New York Public Library cited the book in its “Best of Reference ’98.”

Down East: A Maritime History of Maine (Tilbury House, 2000) has been adopted for Maine
history courses at the University of Southern Maine, Southern Maine Community College and at
high schools around the state. He is currently finishing work on Business on Great Waters: A
Maritime History of the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009). His article “A Pax Upon You: Preludes
and Perils of American Imperialism” (Clio’s Psyche, December 2003) has also been assigned in
college-level history courses (and is available online at http://maritimehistory.blogspot.com/).

Paine is an editor of Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction. He has contributed articles to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
(ed. William McNeill), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (ed. John Hattendorf), The
Oxford Companion to World Exploration (ed. David Buisseret) and the forthcoming ABC-Clio
World History Encyclopedia (ed. Alfred J. Andrea). He is a regular book reviewer for The
Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, International Journal of Maritime History and Nautical
Research Journal, among other publications.

In addition to the World History Association, his memberships include the Forum on European
Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI), the International Maritime Economic History
Association, Society for Nautical Research, North American Society for Oceanic History and the
Institute of Nautical Archaeology.

A graduate of Columbia College (1981), in November 2008 Paine will defend his doctoral thesis
“Middle Ages, Middle Sea: Eurasian Maritime Connections from the Seventh to Thirteenth
Centuries” at Leiden University.