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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blakemore, Richard, 1987- (Editor ), Davey, James (Lecturer in naval and maritime history) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
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.