The Routledge companion to marine and maritime worlds, 1400-1800
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The Routledge companion to marine and maritime worlds, 1400-1800
（Routledge companions）
Routledge, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare across several hundred years of history, students can access the full scope of maritime history and explore new ways of thinking about the marine past.
This book explores maritime expertise across a wide geographical scope including Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas, ensuring that students can understand the global impact of sea travel in the early modern period.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Oceans in Global History and Culture 1400-1800: Expanding Horizons Section 1: Historiography and the Premodern Sea 2. Why the Medieval Sea Mattered 3. Rediscovering the Age of Discovery 4. The Cartography of the Sea: Mapping England's 'Mastery of the Oceans' 5. Domestic Maritime Trade in Late Tudor England c.1565-85: A Case Study of King's Lynn and Plymouth 6. Global Networks in Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 7. Regionalism, Localism, and Individualism in the Ottoman Mediterranean: Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Seafarers' Tales 8. Port Towns and the 'Paramaritime' 9. Fishermen and their Families in Late Medieval and Tudor Kent 10. Ships and Shipping Technology 11. Navies and Naval Operations 12. Nautical Manuals and Ships' Instruments, 1550-1800: Lessons in Two and Three Dimensions 13. Spectacles of the Sea: Warship Decoration and Ideology in Early Modern Europe Section 3: Social and Political Seas 14. Tudor Shipmasters and Maritime Communities, 1550-1600 15. Women and the Sea, 1600-1800 16. Early Modern English Piracy and Privateering 17. Law and the Sea 18. 'Men Whose Vocation Calls us to Dangers Substantial': Healthcare in the Early English East India Company, 1601-11 19. English Trading Companies and the Sea 1550-1650: 'Beyond the Seas Merchant Like' 20. Transatlantic Tubers: New World Potatoes in Early Modern English Literature Section 4: Cultural Seas 21. Mutable, Associative, and Ugly: Oceanic Feelings in Middle English Literature and Medieval Natural Science 22. Enter Jack Tar: The Blue Water Mariner in Early Modern World Literature 23. Early Modern Maritime Heroes: Idols of the Sea 24. Sea Music and Shipboard Performance Culture 25. 'We Split!': Shipwreck in Early Modern European History and Culture
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