The maritime world of early modern Britain /
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a rang...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Maritime humanities, 1400-1800.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Richard J. Blakemore, James Davey
- 1. The Minion and Its Travels: Sailing to Guinea in the Sixteenth Century / Bernhard Klein
- 2. Commanding the World Itself : Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot Influence on Early English Sea Power / Alan James
- 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, Gary P. Baker
- 4. An Evaluation of Scottish Trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 / Claire McLoughlin
- 5. Performing 'Water' Ralegh : The Cultural Politics of Sea Captains in Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama / Claire Jowitt
- 6. 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments' : Capital Trials aboard the Early East India Company Voyages / Cheryl Fury
- 7. 'A water bawdy house': Women and the Navy in the British Civil Wars / Elaine Murphy
- 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
- 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
- 10. Systematizing the Sea : Knowledge, Power and Maritime Sovereignty in Late Seventeenth-Century Science / Philippa Hellawell.