The Routledge companion to marine and maritime worlds 1400-1800
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 67492685
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781003048503
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367471842
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds addresses all aspects of human contact with and experience of the oceans in this transformative phase in seaborne activity across the globe, and economic and cultural growth. The volume’s ocean-centrism reveals how sea travel cuts across national and imperial borders, allowing global maritime perceptions that speaks to today’s emerging transnational concepts of global capitalism and commerce, and environmental change. Using the latest research, the authors looked beyond the traditional boundaries of maritime studies to offer authoritative overviews of key topics combined with penetrative examinations of maritime and shipboard communities, of the social and economic forces that underpinned Europeans’ and non-Europeans’ encounters with the seas. The editors’ interests lie in the fields of empirical-driven research, renaissance and early modern travel literature, and environmental humanities, all of which shaped the structure of the book. Each editor used existing contacts to bring together twenty-four scholars from across the globe, some leading researchers in their fields, others distinctive new voices. Lambert contributed a 12,500-word chapter which analysed Tudor shipmasters. By drawing on digital humanities approaches Lambert demonstrated how the location of a port shaped the careers of seafarers, and used tax and probate records to examine the socio-economic status and inheritance strategies of shipmasters. Through his chapter Lambert has developed new methodological approaches to examining the seafaring community of Tudor England, thus setting out a new research agenda. Lambert also wrote three-quarters of the introduction (c.9,000 words, pp. 1-14), which situates each chapter within the current historiography and discusses in detail the ways the chapters add to the current body of literature. Lambert acted as first editor for seven chapters, and second and third editor for a further sixteen chapters: in total Lambert read and edited all the contributions, amounting to over 250,000 words.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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