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.
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.
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 Companys Shipping
Requirements, 16211654
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 Genoas 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
(15851604)
RICHARD STONE
13 The Carrera de Indias: Maritime Routes and Merchant Networks in the
Spanish Empire, 15001750
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, 17681775
SEAN M. KELLEY
16 Towards Abolition: The British Slave Trade and Its Caribbean Markets,
17831807
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, 17501860
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 'Its an Ill Wind That Blows Good to Nobody: The Environment, Shipwrecks
and Wrecking in Atlantic Irelands Nineteenth Century Blasket Islands
CATHRYN PEARCE
23 Charting and Mapping the Irish Coast, c.12001900
PATRICK OFLANAGAN
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,
15001800. The
Portuguese Case
AMELIA POLONIA
26 Lives at Sea: Seafarers and Social History, c. 15001800
RICHARD J. BLAKEMORE
Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University of London. His teaching and research focus on maritime history, slavery and the slave trade, emigration and immigration, and music history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous publications include Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007), Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia (2016), and Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia (2021).
