Short description:

The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history.

Long description:

The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500 provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history.

Over the past half-century, maritime history has become a significant sub-field of historical research that intersects with broader historical concerns such as oceanic history, global patterns of production and consumption, and the maritime heritage industry. Informed by original research, an engagement with current historiographical concerns, and a global geographical reach, the book is divided into sections covering shipping, ports, merchants and trade, maritime environments, coastal zones, and the human dimension. Chapters focus on different countries across different ranges of time and also with different methodological approaches. The six sections of this book show the significant areas central to the study and understanding of the modern maritime world, and collectively, they highlight the areas in which the themes pursued by maritime historians have advanced and are currently moving.

This book will appeal to various academic audiences; students will find chapters dealing with major topics in maritime history that will help them in their courses; for professional scholars in history, archaeology, heritage studies, historical sociology, and economics, chapters outline some of the latest research in the field.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

KENNETH MORGAN

PART 1

Shipping

1 The Rise, Greatness and Fall of the Dutch Shipbuilding Industry

VICTOR ENTHOVEN

2 Ships for the Company: Meeting the Dutch West India Company?s Shipping Requirements, 1621?1654

ERIK ODEGARD

3 ?No Finer Fleet?: The Maritime World of the East India Company

JOHN MCALEER

4 Shipping in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade: A Quantitative Profile

KENNETH MORGAN

5 Studying Shipping in the Digital Era: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France

SILVIA MARZAGALLI

6 Commercial Expansion and Technical Evolution of the Greek Merchant Marine in the Nineteenth Century

APOSTOLOS DELIS

PART 2

Ports

7 Genoa?s Maritime Economy in the Early Modern Age: Port, Trade, and Merchant Communities in the International Market Network

LUISA PICCINNO

8 Making and Missing a Shipping Revolution: Bristol in the Nineteenth Century

JAMES BOYD

9 Industrialisation, Globalisation and the Emergence of New Port Cities: A Case Study of Piraeus

KATERINA GALANI

10 From Steam Shipping to the Steel Box: Seaport Evolution in West Africa in the Long Durée

DANIEL CASTILLO HIDALGO AND AYODEJI OLUKOJU

11 Explaining the Current Status and Influencing Factors of Contemporary South Asian Port Development

LIU PENG, LI KEXIN, AND CAO YE

PART 3

Merchants and Trade

12 Finding Smugglers in the Least Likely Place ? The Customs Records: Statistical Evidence for Illicit Trade During the Anglo-Spanish War (1585?1604)

RICHARD STONE

13 The Carrera de Indias: Maritime Routes and Merchant Networks in the Spanish Empire, 1500?1750

ANA CRESPO SOLANA

14 Merchants and Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

THOMAS M. TRUXES

15 A ?Slaving Port?? The Captive and Conventional Trades in Newport, Rhode Island, 1768?1775

SEAN M. KELLEY

16 Towards Abolition: The British Slave Trade and Its Caribbean Markets, 1783?1807

KENNETH MORGAN

PART 4

Maritime Environments

17 A Place of Immense Advantage: The South Atlantic Island of St Helena

ANDREW PEARSON

18 The House of the Devil: Seafaring the Atlantic World in the Early Modern Era

VICTOR ENTHOVEN

19 Longitude Found: Innovation and Navigational Practice, 1750?1860

RICHARD DUNN

20 Maritime Heritage Versus Maritime History

INGO K. HEIDBRINK

PART 5

Coastal Zones

21 Controlling the Coast: Law, Conflict, and Sovereignty in the Littoral Zone in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Ghana

DAVID WILSON

22 'It?s an Ill Wind That Blows Good to Nobody?: The Environment, Shipwrecks and Wrecking in Atlantic Ireland?s Nineteenth Century Blasket Islands

CATHRYN PEARCE

23 Charting and Mapping the Irish Coast, c.1200?1900

PATRICK O?FLANAGAN

PART 6

The Human Dimension

24 The Movement of Unfree People Across the Atlantic in the Early Modern Maritime World

TREVOR BURNARD

25 Gendering European Seaports in the First Global Age, 1500?1800. The Portuguese Case

AMELIA POLONIA

26 Lives at Sea: Seafarers and Social History, c. 1500?1800

RICHARD J. BLAKEMORE