The Baltic and the North seas /

The Baltic and the North seas /

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Author / Creator:Kirby, D. G.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:xi, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Seas in history
Subject:
Commerce.
Baltic Sea Region -- Commerce.
North Sea Region -- Commerce.
Europe -- Baltic Sea Region.
Europe -- North Sea Region.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4253330
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Other authors / contributors:Hinkkanen-Lievonen, Merja-Liisa.
ISBN:0415132827
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-338) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The seas discovered
  • The seas emerge
  • Waters, saline and brackish
  • The scientific 'discovery' of the sea
  • 2. The seas repulsed
  • Keeping the sea at bay
  • Living with the waves
  • Reclaiming the land
  • Living by the sea
  • 3. The seas imagined
  • Maps of experience
  • Stormy seas, safe harbour
  • The view from the shore
  • Beside the seaside
  • Fixing the boundaries
  • 4. Voyaging
  • Charting the northern seas
  • The art of navigation
  • Routes and obstacles
  • Speeds and sailing performance
  • Havens
  • 5. Boats and ships
  • Beginnings
  • Cogs, knarrs and hulks
  • Ships and shipbuilding in the early modern era
  • Shipbuilders
  • 6. Seafaring and power
  • Traders, raiders and rulers (c. 200-1200)
  • Merchants, princes and pirates (c. 1200-1500)
  • The struggle for the mastery of the sea (c. 1500-1720)
  • The era of great power politics (1720-1918)
  • 7. Trade and traders
  • Commodities and markets
  • Coastal trade
  • The challenge of steam
  • The mercantile experience of the sea
  • 8. Fishing
  • The catch and the market
  • Conservation and exploitation
  • Innovation and adaptability: fishing as a livelihood
  • 9. Mariners
  • A race apart?
  • Who went to sea?
  • Fighting men
  • Pay and conditions
  • Changing patterns of work
  • 10. Sailors and the sea
  • A sailing way of life
  • The sea of experience
  • 11. Maritime women
  • On the sea's threshold?
  • Maritime gender roles
  • Marriages on the water
  • The loneliness of long-distance waiting
  • Women and shipboard labour
  • 12. The seas threatened
  • The sea out of sight
  • The sea in sight
  • From fish to oil
  • Endangered environment
  • Politics and pleasure
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index

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