The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain /

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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: Davey, James (Lecturer in naval and maritime history) (Editor ), Blakemore, Richard, 1987- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Maritime humanities, 1400-1800.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History > 17th century.
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History > 16th century.
Sea-power > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Sea-power > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 17th century.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 16th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richard J. Blakemore and James Davey
  • The minion and its travels : sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century / Bernhard Klein
  • Commanding the world itself : Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popeliniere, and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power / Alan James
  • 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
  • An evaluation of Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 / Claire McLoughlin
  • Performing 'water' Ralegh : the cultural politics of sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama / Claire Jowitt
  • 'Wicked actions merit fearful judgments' : capital trials aboard the early East India Company voyages / Cheryl Fury
  • 'A water bawdy house' : women and the navy in the British civil wars / Elaine Murphy
  • '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
  • '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
  • Systematizing the sea : knowledge, power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth-century science / Philippa Hellawell.

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