The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800

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The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas. Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: oceans in global history and culture 1400–1800: expanding horizons • Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, and Steve Mentz Part I: Historiography and the premodern sea 2 Why the medieval sea mattered • Susan Rose 3 Rediscovering the age of discovery • Lincoln Paine 4 The cartography of the sea: mapping England’s ‘mastery of the oceans’ • Alistair S. Maeer 5 Domestic maritime trade in late Tudor England c.1565–85: a case study of King’s Lynn and Plymouth • Gary Paul Baker 6 Global networks in maritime worlds 1400–1800 • Rila Mukherjee 7 Regionalism, localism, and individualism in the Ottoman Mediterranean: seventeenth-century Ottoman seafarers’ tales • Rhoads Murphey Part II: Material seas 8 Port towns and the ‘paramaritime’ • Isaac Land 9 Fishermen and their families in late medieval and Tudor Kent • Sheila Sweetinburgh 10 Ships and shipping technology • Richard W. Unger 11 Navies and naval operations • John B. Hattendorf 12 Nautical manuals and ships’ instruments, 1550–1800: lessons in two and three dimensions • Margaret E. Schotte 13 Spectacles of the sea: warship decoration and ideology in early modern Europe • Benjamin W. D. Redding Part III: Social and political seas 14 Tudor shipmasters and maritime communities, 1550–1600 • Craig Lambert 15 Women and the Sea, 1600–1800 • Margarette Lincoln 16 Early modern English piracy and privateering • Elaine Murphy 17 Law and the sea • Richard J. Blakemore 18 ‘Men whose vocation calls us to dangers substantial’: healthcare in the early English East India Company, 1601–11 • Cheryl Fury 19 English trading companies and the sea, 1550–1650: ‘beyond the seas merchant like’ • Edmond J. Smith 20 Transatlantic tubers: New World potatoes in early modern English literature • Edward McLean Test Part IV: Cultural seas 21 Mutable, associative, and ugly: oceanic feelings in Middle English literature and medieval natural science • Matthew Boyd Goldie 22 Enter Jack Tar: the blue-water mariner in early modern world literature • Dan Brayton 23 Early modern maritime heroes: idols of the sea • Claire Jowitt 24 Sea music and shipboard performance culture • James Seth 25 ‘We split!’: shipwreck in early modern European history and culture • Steve Mentz Index