The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500 [Hardcover]

The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in maritime history.

Introduction

KENNETH MORGAN

PART 1

Shipping

1 The Rise, Greatness and Fall of the Dutch Shipbuilding Industry

VICTOR ENTHOVEN

2 Ships for the Company: Meeting the Dutch West India Companys Shipping Requirements, 16211654

ERIK ODEGARD

3 No Finer Fleet: The Maritime World of the East India Company

JOHN MCALEER

4 Shipping in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade: A Quantitative Profile

KENNETH MORGAN

5 Studying Shipping in the Digital Era: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France

SILVIA MARZAGALLI

6 Commercial Expansion and Technical Evolution of the Greek Merchant Marine in the Nineteenth Century

APOSTOLOS DELIS

PART 2

Ports

7 Genoas Maritime Economy in the Early Modern Age: Port, Trade, and Merchant Communities in the International Market Network

LUISA PICCINNO

8 Making and Missing a Shipping Revolution: Bristol in the Nineteenth Century

JAMES BOYD

9 Industrialisation, Globalisation and the Emergence of New Port Cities: A Case Study of Piraeus

KATERINA GALANI

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