Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500

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 East India Company and Britain's Maritime World

JOHN MCALEER

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

KENNETH MORGAN

5 Studying Shipping in the Pre-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 the Atlantic Transition: 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 Duree

AYODEJI OLUKOJU and DANIEL CASTILLO HIDALGO

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 in the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604

RICHARD STONE

13 The 'Carrera de Indias': Maritime Routes and Merchant Networks in the Spanish Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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 Final Years of the British Slave Trade, 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 Labour in Port Cities in the Atlantic World

TREVOR BURNARD

25 Gendering European Seaports in the First Global Age (1500-1800): The Portuguese Case

AMELIA POLONIA

26 The Historiography of Seafarers, 1500-1800

RICHARD J. BLAKEMORE

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