The Baltic and the North Seas
| Titel: | The Baltic and the North Seas / David Kirby and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2000 |
| Umfang: | XI, 353 S. : Ill., Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Seas in history |
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| ISBN: | 0415132827 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- Preface
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- The seas discovered
- p. 6
- The seas emerge
- p. 6
- Waters, saline and brackish
- p. 11
- The scientific 'discovery' of the sea
- p. 15
- 2
- The seas repulsed
- p. 23
- Keeping the sea at bay
- p. 24
- Living with the waves
- p. 28
- Reclaiming the land
- p. 29
- Living by the sea
- p. 33
- 3
- The seas imagined
- p. 38
- Maps of experience
- p. 38
- Stormy seas, safe harbour
- p. 39
- The view from the shore
- p. 45
- Beside the seaside
- p. 52
- Fixing the boundaries
- p. 55
- 4
- Voyaging
- p. 60
- Charting the northern seas
- p. 60
- The art of navigation
- p. 64
- Routes and obstacles
- p. 70
- Speeds and sailing performance
- p. 76
- Havens
- p. 77
- 5
- Boats and ships
- p. 83
- Beginnings
- p. 83
- Cogs, knarrs and hulks
- p. 86
- Ships and shipbuilding in the early modern era
- p. 93
- Shipbuilders
- p. 99
- 6
- Seafaring and power
- p. 103
- Traders, raiders and rulers (c. 200-1200)
- p. 103
- Merchants, princes and pirates (c. 1200-1500)
- p. 110
- The struggle for the mastery of the sea (c. 1500-1720)
- p. 119
- The era of great power politics (1720-1918)
- p. 128
- 7
- Trade and traders
- p. 143
- Commodities and markets
- p. 143
- Coastal trade
- p. 148
- The challenge of steam
- p. 154
- The mercantile experience of the sea
- p. 156
- 8
- Fishing
- p. 164
- The catch and the market
- p. 164
- Conservation and exploitation
- p. 173
- Innovation and adaptability: fishing as a livelihood
- p. 177
- 9
- Mariners
- p. 186
- A race apart?
- p. 186
- Who went to sea?
- p. 188
- Fighting men
- p. 194
- Pay and conditions
- p. 198
- Changing patterns of work
- p. 204
- 10
- Sailors and the sea
- p. 211
- A sailing way of life
- p. 212
- The sea of experience
- p. 222
- 11
- Maritime women
- p. 231
- On the sea's threshold?
- p. 232
- Maritime gender roles
- p. 235
- Marriages on the water
- p. 242
- The loneliness of long-distance waiting
- p. 245
- Women and shipboard labour
- p. 248
- 12
- The seas threatened
- p. 254
- The sea out of sight
- p. 254
- The sea in sight
- p. 261
- From fish to oil
- p. 263
- Endangered environment
- p. 269
- Politics and pleasure
- p. 272
- Notes
- p. 277
- Selected bibliography
- p. 325
- Index
- p. 339
