Autorentext

Richard J. Blakemore is Associate Professor in the History of the Atlantic World at the University of Reading. With Elaine Murphy, he is the author of The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653 (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), and he is currently finishing a monograph entitled Empires below Deck: Two Seafarers and their Worlds in the Seventeenth Century. James Davey is Senior Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include: Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A New Naval History (Manchester University Press, 2019) edited with Quintin Colville. His current research project explores the Royal Navy and the 'Age of Revolution'.

Klappentext

Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.

Inhalt

List of illustrations, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Note on conventions, Introduction (Richard Blakemore and James Davey), Chapter 1: The Minion and its travels: sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century (Bernhard Klein), Chapter 2: Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power (Alan James), Chapter 3: An investigation of the size and geographical distribution of the English, Welsh, and Channel Islands merchant fleet: a case Study of 1571-72 (Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker), Chapter 4: An evaluation of Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 (Claire McLoughlin), Chapter 5: Performing 'Water' Ralegh: the cultural politics of sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (Claire Jowitt), Chapter 6: 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments': capital trials aboard the early East India Company voyages (Cheryl Fury), Chapter 7 'A water bawdy house': women and the navy in the British Civil Wars (Elaine Murphy), Chapter 8 'Thy sceptre to a trident change / And straight, unruly seas thou canst command': contemporary representations of King Charles I and the Ship Money Fleets within the cultural imagination of Caroline England. (Rebecca A. Bailey), Chapter 9 'Proud Symbols of the Prospering Rural Seamen': Scottish church ship models and the Shipmaster's Societies of North East Scotland in the late 17th Century (Meredith Greiling), Chapter 10 Systematizing the sea: knowledge, power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth- century science (Philippa Hellawell), Bibliography, Index.