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 range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.
This volume boldly reinterprets Britain's maritime history through multidisciplinary scholarship, exploring how the sea fundamentally shaped British development.
List of illustrations, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Note on
conventions, Introduction (Richard Blakemore and James Davey),
Chapter 1: The
Minion and its travels: sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century (Bernhard
Klein),
Chapter 2: Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh, La
Popelinière, and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power (Alan
James),
Chapter 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 and Gary P. Baker),
Chapter 4: An evaluation of
Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 (Claire
McLoughlin),
Chapter 5: Performing 'Water' Ralegh: the cultural politics of
sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (Claire Jowitt),
Chapter
6: 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments': capital trials aboard the early
East India Company voyages (Cheryl Fury),
Chapter 7 'A water bawdy house':
women and the navy in the British Civil Wars (Elaine Murphy),
Chapter 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),
Chapter 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),
Chapter 10 Systematizing the sea:
knowledge, power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth- century
science (Philippa Hellawell), Bibliography, Index.
Richard J. Blakemore is Associate Professor in the History of the Atlantic World at the University of Reading. With Elaine Murphy, he is the author of The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), and he is currently finishing a monograph entitled Empires below Deck: Two Seafarers and their Worlds in the Seventeenth Century. James Davey is Senior Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include: Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A New Naval History (Manchester University Press, 2019) edited with Quintin Colville. His current research project explores the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolution.
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