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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.

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Author:   Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9781138961135

ISBN 10:   1138961132
Pages:   550
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Durée 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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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).

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