A world at sea

• Titel: A world at sea
• Titelzusatz: maritime practices and global history
• Mitwirkende: Benton, Lauren A. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: vi, 267 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The early modern Americas
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5241-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Seeschifffahrt / (s)Navigation / (s)Seerecht / (s)Außenhandel / (s)Internationale Verflechtung / (s)Globalisierung / (z)Weltgeschichte
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: A world at sea. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. - 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 267 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1689360518

Abstract

Introduction : Making maritime history global / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Lauren Benton -- Chapter 1. Why did anyone go to sea? Structures of maritime enlistment from family traditions to violent coercion / Carla Rahn Phillips -- Chapter 2. Between the company and Koxinga : territorial waters, trade, and war over deerskins / Adam Clulow and Xing Hang -- Chapter 3. "The law Is the lord of the sea" : maritime law as global maritime history / Matthew Taylor Raffery -- Chater. 4. Reading cargoes : letters and the problem of nationality in the age of privateering / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal -- Chapter 5. Sailors, states, and the creation of nautical knowledge / Margaret Schotte -- Chapter 6. Indigenous maritime travelers and knowledge production / David Igler -- Chapter 7. Maritime marronage in colonial borderlands / Jeppe Mulich -- Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the water's edge : Japan's opening as coastal encounter / Catherine Phipps -- Chapter 9. Working women who got wet : a global survey of women in premodern and early modern fisheries / Lisa Norling -- Afterword : Land-sea regimes in world history / Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.

Abstract

"This is a book in maritime history set in a global context, in the modern and early modern periods. The ocean is featured as a place where history happens"--