Empires of the Sea : a Maritime Power Networks in World History /

Empires of the Sea : a Maritime Power Networks in World History /

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contrib...

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Other Authors: Strootman, Rolf (Editor), Eijnde, Floris van den (Editor), Wijk, Roy van (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean ; 4.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

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Sea-power > History.
Imperialism.

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Call Number: V25

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Maritime Empires in World History /
  • Rolf Strootman
  • The Middle Sea
  • A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae /
  • Jorrit M. Kelder
  • The "First Athenian Empire"? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period /
  • Floris van den Eijnde
  • Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s /
  • Roy van Wijk
  • The Ptolemaic Sea Empire /
  • Rolf Strootman
  • The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire /
  • Thomas Kirk
  • The Northern Seas
  • Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas /
  • Marco Mostert
  • Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire /
  • Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm
  • Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici - a Maritime Empire? /
  • Olaf Mörke
  • The Oceans
  • Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade /
  • Anjana Singh
  • The Melaka Empire, c. 1400-1528 /
  • Peter Borschberg
  • The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks /
  • Cátia Antunes
  • The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy: Creative Absorption and the Company Empire in Asia /
  • Remco Raben
  • Pirate Networks in the Caribbean /
  • Kris Lane
  • Back Matter
  • Index.