A World at Sea : : Maritime Practices and Global History / / ed. by Lauren Benton, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Early Modern Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 12 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Making Maritime history Global
- Part I. Currents
- Chapter 1. Why did anyone Go to sea? structures of Maritime enlistment from family Traditions to Violent coercion
- Chapter 2. Between the company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over deerskins
- Chapter 3. “The law is the lord of the sea”: Maritime law as Global Maritime history
- Part II. Dispatches
- Chapter 4. reading cargoes: letters and the Problem of nationality in the age of Privateering
- Chapter 5. sailors, states, and the creation of nautical Knowledge
- Chapter 6. indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production
- Part III. Thresholds
- Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in colonial Borderlands
- Chapter 8. sovereignty at the Water’s edge: Japan’s opening as coastal encounter
- Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: a Global survey of Women in Premodern and early Modern fisheries
- Afterword: land- sea regimes in World history
- Notes
- List of contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments