Maritime Kent Through the Ages (eBook, PDF)

Gateway to the Sea
Redaktion: Bligh, Stuart; Sweetinburgh, Sheila

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day.

Kent, with its long coastline and its important geopolitical position close to London and continental Europe, and on major trading routes between Britain and the wider world, has had a very significant maritime history. This book covers a wide range of topics relating to that history from the earliest times to the present day. It sets Kent's varied coastline and waters in their geological and geographical context, showing how erosion and sediment deposition have contributed to the changing nature of maritime activities and populations. It examines Kent's strategic role in the defence of the country with the development and redevelopment of coastal defences, including four naval dockyards. It goes on to consider the supporting industries which grew up around the coastline, those which supplied raw materials and agricultural products from the county's hinterland, and its wider national and international trading links. It also discusses the diverse coastal communities of Kent and how they have changed in response to the demands of defence, trade, and changing population and migration patterns. In addition, the book includes detailed case studies which explore particular subject areas as exemplars of the major themes covered by the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800103054
• Artikelnr.: 63205021

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1) Introduction
Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh Part 1 Topography 2) Kent's Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or "where the land meets the sea"!)
Chris Young Part II Defence 3) Defending the Kent coast
Roman to Anglo
Saxon
Keith Parfitt 4) The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years' War
Adrian Jobson 5) To Defend the Coast
Chris Ware 6) Kent's Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam
Andrew Lambert Part III Trade and Industry 7) Trade and Industry during the Roman Period
Elizabeth Blanning 8) Far
Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent
Andrew Richardson 9) Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent
Maryanne Kowaleski 10) The Early Modern Period 1500
1700: Trade and Industry
Jane Andrewes 11) Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700
David Killingray Part III Coastal Communities 12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages
Gillian Draper 13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent's History, c.1500
1840
Ben Marsh and David Killingray 14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth
and Eighteenth
Century Kent
Sandra Dunster 15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities
Elizabeth Edwards Part IV Case Studies 16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340
1500
Susan Rose 17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe
Sheila Sweetinburgh 18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent
Melanie Caiazza 19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society
Gill Wyatt 20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500
1660
Claire Bartram 21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton 22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women's Daily Life and Emotions in 1918
Jo Stanley 23) Afterword
Margarette Lincoln Bibliography Index