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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Series: | Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ;
4. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020 |
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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.