Overview

This two-volume set documents the essential role of the sea and maritime activity across history, from travel and food production to commerce and conquest. In all eras, water transport has served as the cheapest and most efficient means of moving cargo and people over any significant distance. Only relatively recently have railroads and aircraft provided an alternative. Most of the world's bulk goods continue to travel primarily by ship over water. Even today, 95 percent of the cargo that enters and leaves the United States does so by ship. Similarly, people around the world rely on the sea for food, and in recent years, the sea has become an important source of oil and other resources, with the longterm effects of our continuing efforts to extract resources from the sea further highlighting environmental concerns that range from pollution to the exhaustion of fish stocks. This chronologically organized two-volume reference addresses the history of the sea, beginning with ancient civilizations (4000 to 1000 BCE) and ending with the modern era (1945 to the present day). Each of the eight chapters is further broken down into sections that focus on specific nations or regions, offering detailed descriptions of that area of the world and shorter entries on specific topics, individuals, and events. The book spans maritime history, covering major seafaring peoples and nations; famous explorers, travelers, and commanders; events, battles, and wars; key technologies, including famous ships; important processes and ongoing events, such as piracy and the slave trade; and more. Readers will benefit from dozens of primary source documents—ranging from ancient Egyptian tales of seafaring to texts by renowned travelers like Marco Polo, Zheng He, and Ibn Battuta—that provide firsthand accounts from the age of discovery as well as accounts of battle from World War I and II and more modern accounts of the sea. Provides a broad survey of the importance of the oceans for all of human culture and civilization, including coverage of diverse cultures such as the Polynesians, Vikings, Minoans, and many others Describes the voyages of the great explorers and places them in a broad multinational and multicultural perspective Traces the human use of the sea over time, noting activities and historic events such as piracy, the slave trade, fishing, and whaling, as well as describing commerce in ancient and modern contexts

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Author:   Stephen K. Stein
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Greenwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.50cm , Height: 6.60cm , Length: 25.90cm
Weight:   2.359kg
ISBN:  

9781440835506

ISBN 10:   1440835500
Pages:   919
Publication Date:   24 April 2017
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction VOLUME 1. ANCIENT EGYPT THROUGH THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE Chapter 1: Early Civilizations, 4000 bce to 1000 bce Introduction Chronology Egypt Delta, Battle of The Khufu Vessels Punt, Expeditions to Sea Peoples The Uluburun Shipwreck The Aegean Sea Homer Knossos Mesopotamia Dilmun The Epic of Gilgamesh Primary Documents Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, ca. 2100 bce ""The Shipwrecked Sailor,"" ca. 2000–1650 bce ""Great Inscription of Year 8"" and ""Inscription Accompanying the Naval Battle,"" from Ramesses III's Mortuary Temple at Medinet Habu, ca. 1175 bce The Report of Wenamun, ca. 1189–1077 bce Homer, Odyssey, ca. 750–650 bce Chapter 2: The Ancient World, 1000 bce to 300 ce Introduction Chronology China Egypt Alexandria Eudoxus of Cyzicus Ptolemy, Claudius Greece Herodotus Piraeus Pytheas of Massalia Salamis, Battle of Syracusia Themistocles Trireme India Phoenicia and Carthage Hanno the Navigator Rome Actium, Battle of Piracy in the Mediterranean Punic Wars Primary Documents Voyage of Hanno, ca. 600–400 bce Herodotus on Pharaoh Necho II, ca. 484–425 bce Julius Caesar Battles the Veneti, ca. 100–44 bce Excerpt from the Pattinapalai, ca. 100 bce–100 ce Strabo on Pytheas of Massalia, ca. 64 bce–24 ce Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, ca. 60 ce Chapter 3: Exchange and Encounter, 300 ce to 1000 ce Introduction Chronology China and East Asia Imperial Tribute in the Sui and Tang Eras Buddhist Pilgrimage from China The Tang Dynasty Maritime Ceramic Route Seaborne Merchants of Silla Fa Xian Grand Canal India Shipbuilding and Navigation Buddhism Influence on Trade and Travel Islamic Commercial Dominance The Chola Empire Pilgrimage, Buddhist Islamic World Indian Ocean (Bahr al-Hind) The Mediterranean Sea (Bahr al-Rum, or Bahr al-Sham) Christian Egyptians and the Umayyad Fleet Dhow Masts, The Battle of the Sinbad the Sailor Northern Europe Trade and Exchange Military and Naval Travel Mission and Pilgrimage Eriksson, Leif L'Anse aux Meadows Viking Longship Vikings Romans and Byzantium Trade and Exchange Military and Naval Travel Mission and Pilgrimage Constantinople Dromon Rhodian Sea Law T-O Maps Southeast Asia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Srivijaya Tattooing Voyaging Canoes Primary Documents The Travels of Fa Xian, 337 to ca. 422 ce The Voyage of St. Brendan, ca. 484–577 ce The Book of the Marvels of India, 900–953 ce The Tosa Diary, 936 ce The Long Serpent, 1000 ce Chapter 4: Global Interactions, 1000 ce to 1500 ce Introduction Chronology The Americas before 1500 ce Thule Inuit China and East Asia Junk Mongol Invasions of Japan Zheng He Europe Benjamin of Tudela Cog Cresques, Abraham Crusades Hanseatic League Normans Pilgrimage, Christian Polo, Marco Piracy in Europe Venice Arsenal India and Southeast Asia Banda Islands Ben Yiju, Abraham Islamic World Indian Ocean Mediterranean Sea Ibn Battuta Ibn Jubayr Ibn Majid, Ahmad Pilgrimage, Muslim (Hajj) Slave Trade Primary Documents Letter from a Medieval Jewish Trader, ca. 950–1250 ce ""A Viking Raid,"" 1060 ce Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, 1299 ce Ibn Battuta's Journey, 1354 ce Zheng He's Voyages, 1405–1411 ce Chapter 5: The First Global Age, 1450 ce to 1770 ce Introduction Chronology Africa Mozambique Island Slave Trade The Americas Spanish America Portuguese Brazil The English in North America and the Caribbean The French The Dutch Hakluyt, Richard Manila Galleons Mayflower Piracy in the Americas Salem, Massachusetts Smuggling Teixeira, Pedro de China and East Asia Piracy in East Asia England Cabot, John Defoe, Daniel Drake, Sir Francis East India Company Halley, Edmond Harrison, John Mary Rose Navigation Acts Raleigh, Sir Walter France Cartier, Jacques Champlain, Samuel de French East India Company Verrazano, Giovanni de India and Southeast Asia Goa Malacca (Melaka) Orang Laut Japan Late Medieval Warring Period and Early Unification Early Tokugawa Period Imjin War Nagasaki The Netherlands Origins and Revolt Establishing the Dutch Republic From Golden Age to Disaster War and Decline Anglo-Dutch Wars Dutch East India Company Fluyt Grotius, Hugo Tasman, Abel Janszoon Velde, Willem van de, the Elder Ottoman Empire Galley Lepanto, Battle of Mahri, Sulaiman al Pasha, Hayreddin (Barbarossa) Reis, Piri Portugal Albuquerque, Alfonso de Cabral, Pedro Álvares Caravel Dias, Bartolomeu Estado da Índia Gama, Vasco da Henry the Navigator Nau Nuñes, Pedro Russia Sixteenth Century: Muscovy Looks Outward Seventeenth Century: Drive and Consolidation Eighteenth Century: The Russian Empire Flourishes Bering, Vitus Dezhnev, Semyon Ivanov Muscovy Company Peter the Great Spain Columbian Exchange Columbus, Christopher Magellan, Ferdinand Ponce de León, Juan Spanish Armada Treaty of Tordesillas Zacuto, Abraham ben Primary Documents First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, ca. 1460–1524 ce The Treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494 ce Magellan's Round-the-World Voyage, ca. 1491–1535 ce Suma Oriental of Tome Pires, ca. 1516 ce Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania, 1754 ce Olaudah Equiano Describes a Slave Ship, 1789 ce VOLUME 2. A WORLD OF REVOLUTIONS THROUGH THE PRESENT Contents Chapter 6: A World of Revolutions, 1750 ce to 1900 ce Introduction Chronology Africa African Sailors on European and American Ships Barbary Pirates Slave Trade Suez Canal Zanzibar The Arctic and Antarctic Amundsen, Roald Franklin, John Nansen, Fridtjof Peary, Robert Ross, James Clark Science at the Poles Shackleton, Ernest Whaling China Hong Kong Open Door Policy Opium Wars France Bougainville, Antoine de Compagnie Générale Transatlantique Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sebastian-Cesar Jeune Ecole (""Young School"") La Pérouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de Sané, Jacques-Noël Suffren de Saint Tropez, Pierre Surcouf, Robert Verne, Jules Great Britain The Bounty Mutiny Challenger Expedition Conrad, Joseph Cook, James Corbett, Julian Stafford Darwin, Charles Lloyd's of London Marryat, Frederick Nelson, Horatio Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Smith, Adam Trafalgar, Battle of Whitehead, Robert Yachting and Pleasure Sailing Japan Hokusai, Katsushika Latin America and the Caribbean Panama Canal The Netherlands The Navy Shipping Dutch Imperial Decline and Reconfiguration Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij Tanjung Priok Russia War and Decline Krusenstern, Adam Johann von Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik Potemkin Mutiny Russian-American Company United States Commerce in U.S. History Military in U.S. History Labor in U.S. History America's Cup Amistad Mutiny Clipper Ship Cunard, Samuel Ericsson, John Fulton, Robert Hawai'i Mahan, Alfred Thayer Maury, Matthew Fontaine Melville, Herman Monroe Doctrine New Orleans Perry, Matthew Calbraith The Turtle Submarine Primary Documents Treaty of Nanking, 1842 ce Moby-Dick and the Call of the Sea, 1851 ce Treaty of Kanagawa, 1854 ce The Slaver Clara Windsor, 1861 ce Around the World in the Sunbeam, 1883 ce Flogging Aboard Ship, 1840 ce Chapter 7: Crisis and Achievement, 1900 ce to 1945 ce Introduction Chronology France Germany Anschütz-Kaempf, Hermann Hamburg America Line Tirpitz, Alfred von U-Boat Great Britain Supremacy Challenged But Unsurpassed The First World War The Interwar Years The End of Supremacy Dreadnought Forester, C. S. Jutland, Battle of Thornycroft, John Titanic Wilkinson, Norman Japan Kinai Maru Kobe Mikasa Nippon Yusen Kaisha Pearl Harbor Attack Togo, Heihachiro Tsushima, Battle of Netherlands Holland America Line Java-China-Japan Line Scheepvaarthuis United States Black Star Line Holland, John Kaiser, Henry J. Midway, Battle of Slocum, Joshua Washington Naval Conference Primary Documents Sailing Alone, 1900 ce Promoting the Black Star Line, 1919 ce U-Boat Attack by U-123, 1942 ce Sinking of USS Indianapolis, 1945 ce Chapter 8: After World War II, 1945 ce to Present Introduction Chronology Africa African Maritime Labor and Unionization Trends Marginalization of African Seafarers from Commercial Shipping Liberian Registry Maersk Alabama Hijacking Piracy in Africa Australia Fishing Industry Shipping Ports and Maritime Workers Naval History Museums, Maritime Archaeology, and Community Organizations America's Cup Villiers, Alan The Central Pacific (Micronesia) China Orient Overseas Container Line Pao Yue-kong Europe Passenger and Cruise Business Tankers and Container Ships737Fishing and the Environment Costa Concordia Cousteau, Jacques-Yves Heyerdahl, Thor Nedlloyd Onassis, Aristotle Otto Hahn Rotterdam Royal Caribbean Great Britain Leisure Commercial Military—The Royal Navy Chichester, Francis O'Brian, Patrick India Development of the Indian Navy Ocean Exploration Fighting Piracy and International Terrorism Shipping Industry Humanitarian Operations Inland Waterways Ports and Fisheries Japan Latin America and the Caribbean Travel and Leisure Navies Falklands (Malvinas) War Middle East Military Conflict Shipping and Fishing Leisure Achille Lauro Hijacking Aliyah Bet Israel Tanker War Southeast Asia Boat People Great Pacific Garbage Patch Nuclear Bomb Testing in the Pacific Piracy in Southeast Asia Singapore United States Armed Forces Commercial Shipping Leisure Environmental Concerns Aircraft Carrier Carson, Rachel Exxon Valdez Hokule'a The Love Boat Ludwig, Daniel K. McLean, Malcom Rickover, Hyman Surfing Primary Documents Jacques-Yves Cousteau on Ocean Environmental Destruction, Testimony to the U.S. Senate, 1971 ce The Experience of Vietnamese Boat People, 1975 ce; Interview with Ung Canh Bui, 2012 ce The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 ce Environmental Impact of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Testimony Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 1993 ce Annotated Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index"

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A spectacular addition to maritime history, Stein's comprehensive survey spans human interaction with the deep from 4000 BCE to the present. . . . A worthy addition to any public or scholarly library and the perfect gift book for old sea dogs. - Booklist

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Stephen K. Stein is a specialist in naval history and the history of technology who has written on topics ranging from ancient battles to aviation to the iPod.

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