Overview
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? These questions and many more are meet in this Ph.D. dissertation, which circles around the maritime relationships between especially the seaward provinces of the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries. In the early renaissance Dutch maritime technology was imported by the Danish king, who recruited craftsmen and bough ships in the Netherlands and later on the Royal Danish Navy was profoundly influenced by Dutch master shipbuilders and naval officers. But it was not only maritime experts and mariners who travelled to the North, but also ordinary Scandinavian sailors, who migrated the other way and took a part in Dutch shipping to all parts of the world. This labour migration has been known amongst Dutch scholars for some time, but is almost unknown in Scandinavian historical circles. For the first time data from the Amsterdam City archive has made it possible to get closer to the individual sailors, who hailed from the coastal districts of Norway, the Southwest coast of Denmark and for a lesser part the West coast of Sweden and their participation in the Dutch shipping industry has been analysed showing, that they learned important maritime skills onboard. Coming back to Scandinavia these sailors were the backbone of the navies and merchant fleets of the Scandinavian countries especially in the eighteenth century. This study of maritime labour migration will be of interest for scholars of maritime-, migration and technology history but also for anyone, who likes to read about the life's and work of ordinary sailors in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Full Product Details
Author: Asger Norlund Christensen
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Imprint: Sidestone Press
ISBN: 9789088909870
ISBN 10: 9088909873
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 02 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Asger Norlund Christensen is a Danish historian, who did his master at Aarhus University in 2013 and successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in September 2019 at the University of Southern Denmark. In his early carrier he sailed as a deckhand and later as mate and skipper on several traditional sailing ships, just as he has worked with the restoration of traditional craft. Amongst his publications are: 2005. Skibsbygmester E.C. Benzon og hans skibe. The Danish Maritime Museum. Falcon, Copenhagen 2005 2014. Fladens udlandsmobilisering. Rekruttering af skandinaviske sofolk i Amsterdam under Skanske Krig. Fra krig og fred. Dansk militaerhistorisk kommissions tidsskrift 2014/1. Page 11 - 57. 2015. Professional Seamen. A strategic resource during the Scanian War. International Journal of Maritime History. Vol 27, nr. 2. 2015. Page 192 - 207. 2018. Foerandringens foertrupp? -Skandinaviska sjoeman i Nederlanderne OErlogsstader - innovationer, varv och vrak. Marinmuseum Karlskrona. 2018. Page 132 - 142.
