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Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450–1750
Studies in British and European Maritime and Imperial History
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eBook - ePub
Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450–1750
Studies in British and European Maritime and Imperial History
About this book
This second volume of articles by G.V. Scammell offers new insights into the history of British and European shipping in the centuries of Europe's penetration into the oceans of the world, from the 15th to the 18th century. It examines the building, ownership and operation of merchantmen in the context of economic and social developments of the period, combining this with the investigation of the vital, but still comparatively neglected, subjects of the lives, working conditions, beliefs, skills and behaviour of seamen. This is the basis for discussion of the means and methods by which British shipping and merchants established themselves in oceanic trades, including those of other powers, considered in relation to the growth of British maritime and commercial supremacy. The final studies then examine the causes and consequences of European and British seaborne expansion, particularly in Asia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- I War at Sea under the Early Tudors: Some Newcastle-upon-Tyne Evidence (parts I & II)
- II Shipowning in England, c. 1450-1550
- III British Merchant Shipbuilding, c. 1500-1750
- IV The Merchant Service Master in Early Modern England
- V Mutiny in British Ships, c. 1500-1750
- VI 'A Very Profitable and Advantageous Trade': British Smuggling in the Iberian Americas, c. 1500-1750
- VII The English Chartered Trading Companies and the Sea
- VIII The Great Age of Discovery, 1400-1650
- IX European Seafaring in Asia, c. 1500-1750
- X England, Portugal and the Estado da Índia, c. 1500-1635
- XI Seafaring in the Estado da Índia, c. 1500-1750
- XII After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498
- Addenda et Corrigenda
- Index