Richard Blakemore, James Davey, Bernhard Klein, Alan James, Craig L. Lambert

The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain

Herausgeber: Blakemore, Richard; Davey, James

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume boldly reinterprets Britain's maritime history through multidisciplinary scholarship, exploring how the sea fundamentally shaped British development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9789463721301
• ISBN-10: 9463721304
• Artikelnr.: 60005877

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Blakemore is Associate Professor in the History of the Atlantic World at the University of Reading. With Elaine Murphy, he is the author of The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), and he is currently finishing a monograph entitled Empires below Deck: Two Seafarers and their Worlds in the Seventeenth Century. James Davey is Senior Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include: Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A New Naval History (Manchester University Press, 2019) edited with Quintin Colville. His current research project explores the Royal Navy and the 'Age of Revolution'.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Note on conventions
Introduction (Richard Blakemore and James Davey)
Chapter 1: The Minion and its travels: sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century (Bernhard Klein)
Chapter 2: Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh
La Popelinière
and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power (Alan James)
Chapter 3: An investigation of the size and geographical distribution of the English
Welsh
and Channel Islands merchant fleet: a case Study of 1571-72 (Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker)
Chapter 4: An evaluation of Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War
1585-1604 (Claire McLoughlin)
Chapter 5: Performing 'Water' Ralegh: the cultural politics of sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (Claire Jowitt)
Chapter 6: 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments': capital trials aboard the early East India Company voyages (Cheryl Fury)
Chapter 7 'A water bawdy house': women and the navy in the British Civil Wars (Elaine Murphy)
Chapter 8 'Thy sceptre to a trident change / And straight
unruly seas thou canst command': contemporary representations of King Charles I and the Ship Money Fleets within the cultural imagination of Caroline England. (Rebecca A. Bailey)
Chapter 9 'Proud Symbols of the Prospering Rural Seamen': Scottish church ship models and the Shipmaster's Societies of North East Scotland in the late 17th Century (Meredith Greiling)
Chapter 10 Systematizing the sea: knowledge
power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth- century science (Philippa Hellawell)
Bibliography
Index.