Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History

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Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the category of maritime empire as a specific type of empire in both European and 'non-western' history. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Maritime Empires in World History part 1 The Middle Sea 2 A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae 3 The “First Athenian Empire”? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period 4 Contested Hegemonies 5 The Ptolemaic Sea Empire 6 The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire Part 2 The Northern Seas 7 Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas 8 Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire 9 Seventeenth- Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici — a Maritime Empire? part 3 The Oceans 10 Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade 11 The Melaka Empire, c. 1400– 1528 12 The Portuguese Maritime Empire 13 The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy 14 Pirate Networks in the Caribbean Index