Richard Unger

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

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, Global Commodity Prices Database