Empires of the sea : maritime power networks in world history

Author(s)

• Strootman, Rolf
• Eijnde, Floris van den
• Wijk, Roy van

Bibliographic Information

Empires of the sea : maritime power networks in world history

edited by Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde and Roy van Wijk

（Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean / editor in chief, Floris van den Eijnde ; editorial board, David Abulafia, Diederik Burgersdijk, v. 4）

Brill, c2020

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Regime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Maritime Empires in World History Rolf Strootman Part 1 The Middle Sea 2 A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae Jorrit M. Kelder 3 The "First Athenian Empire"? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period Floris van den Eijnde 4 Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s Roy van Wijk 5 The Ptolemaic Sea Empire Rolf Strootman 6 The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire Thomas Kirk Part 2 The Northern Seas 7 Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas Marco Mostert 8 Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire Thomas K. Heeboll-Holm 9 Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici - A Maritime Empire? Olaf Moerke Part 3 The Oceans 10 Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade Anjana Singh 11 The Melaka Empire, c. 1400-1528 Peter Borschberg 12 The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks Catia Antunes 13 The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy: Creative Absorption and the Company Empire in Asia Remco Raben 14 Pirate Networks in the Caribbean Kris Lane Index

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• NCID: BB29246422
• ISBN:
  • 9789004407664
• LCCN: 2019944599
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: x, 361 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sea-power -- History
  • LCSH : Imperialism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB27673149