Facing the Sea
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Facing the Sea

Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Facing the Sea

Essays in Swedish Maritime Studies

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction Simon—Ekström & Leos Müller
  8. 1. The architecture of the early modern sea routes into Stockholm—Niklas Eriksson
  9. 2. Maritime military archery: Bowmen on European warships, 1000–1600—Henrik Arnstad & Abigail Christine Parkes
  10. 3. The human factor: The ship Vasa and its people—Anna Maria Forssberg
  11. 4. Swedish vessels in the Prize Papers: Cases from the American Revolutionary War, 1776–1783—Leos Müller
  12. 5. On the honour of the naval ensign: The Swedish navy and the symbolism of naval andmerchant flags, c.1700–1950—Fredrik Kämpe
  13. 6. Out of the water: Wrecks and salvage at the intersection of death, time past, and national glory—Simon Ekström
  14. 7. Swedish naval officers and the nation: The discourse of national identity in the magazine Vår Flotta,1905–1920—Andreas Linderoth
  15. 8. Tommi the sea dog: Maritime collections and the material culture of Baltic boat children—Mirja Arnshav
  16. 9. How to break the rules just right: Åland smugglers, 1920–1950—Ida Hughes Tidlund
  17. 10. Here, there and everywhere: Ash disposal at sea and the construction of a maritime memory landscape—Hanna Jansson
  18. About the authors
  19. About the Centre for Maritime Studies