Empires of the Sea
Title | Empires of the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2019-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004407677 |
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Maritime Empires
Title | Maritime Empires PDF eBook |
Author | National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781843830764 |
Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. They discuss a variety of issues: maritime trades, among them the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Honduran mahogany for shipping to Britain, the movement of horses across the vast reaches of Asia and the Indian Ocean; the impact of new technologies as Empire expanded in the nineteenth century; the sailors who manned the ships, the settlers who moved overseas, and the major ports of the Imperial world; plus the role of the navy in hydrographic survey. Published in association with the National Maritime Museum. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths College London; MARGARETTE LINCOLN and NIGEL RIGBY are in the research department of the National Maritime Museum.
The World Encompassed
Title | The World Encompassed PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520044227 |
A study of European exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires
The World Encompassed
Title | The World Encompassed PDF eBook |
Author | G. V. Scammell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 645 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351014692 |
In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since. The book takes a broad historical perspective, linking the classic age of European expansion to its medieval antecedents. The Norse reached North America in the tenth century, Italian missionaries and traders were established in China in the high Middle Ages, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in some of the greatest voyages ever made under sail, Iberian explorers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and established footholds in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This is a stimulating and perceptive study, based on wide-ranging research, which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the influence of empire on both colonial and metropolitan societies.
In a Sea of Empires
Title | In a Sea of Empires PDF eBook |
Author | Jeppe Mulich |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2020-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108489729 |
A history of imperial competition, colonial cooperation, and revolutionary currents in the maritime borderlands of the early nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Britain's Maritime Empire
Title | Britain's Maritime Empire PDF eBook |
Author | John McAleer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107100720 |
Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.
Pirates of Empire
Title | Pirates of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Eklöf Amirell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108484212 |
This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.