Facing the Sea

Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies

Simon Ekström, Leos Müller, Simon Ekström, Leos Müller

• Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9789189361041
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

The sea has many faces. Some are calm and welcoming, others ferocious and death-dealing. For centuries of human history, the sea has seen peaceful trade and war, life and death and failure. In Facing the Sea we meet Swedish experiences of the sea. We can read about smugglers from the Åland Islands, about British privateers seizing Swedish ships, and about Swedish naval officers defending the honor of the flag. We also learn what a disaster at sea or the salvage of a shipwreck can say about past and present societies, and why more and more Swedes choose burial at sea for their loved ones. We hear the voices of children who made the dangerous escape to Sweden in wartime by crossing the Baltic Sea. These are a few of the stories written by the eleven researchers who present a smorgasbord of recent work carried out at the Center for Maritime Studies (CEMAS) at Stockholm University. The contributors are historians, ethnologists, and maritime archaeologists associated with the center.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The architecture of the early modern sea routes into Stockholm
• 2. Maritime military archery
• 3. The human factor
• 4. Swedish vessels in the Prize Papers
• 5. On the honour of the naval ensign
• 6. Out of the water
• 7. Swedish naval officers and the nation
• 8. Tommi the sea dog
• 9. How to break the rules just right
• 10. Here, there and everywhere
• About the authors
• About the Centre for Maritime Studies