The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182634427
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-367-47184-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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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
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This long-form output, of c250,000 words comprising 24 original essays and a substantive introduction, was developed over a sustained period of research of approximately six years. The co-editors worked together to select appropriate contributors and refine topics. They each edited all essays, which were often revised multiple times. Jowitt contributed a substantial chapter (c12,000 words) on the complexities of the early modern maritime hero and his [sic] relationship with imperialism/colonialism, and co-wrote a research-rich, area defining c15,000-word introduction. Jowitt led on formatting the book into final form, but editors shared editorial work involved in the book’s production (copy-editing, proof-reading etc).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This ambitious volume, which ranges from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, across vast temporal spaces and several hundred years of history, was designed by the editors to provide overlapping frameworks into the current state of research in, and approaches to, maritime history and culture. Jowitt, Lambert, and Mentz have distinct but cognate areas of research expertise and, through intensive dialogue and discussion with each other, together developed a process of investigation that was ocean-centred, challenging traditional historiographical and cultural studies, to reach beyond national borders and against older views of ‘mastery’ and imperial domination. The volume was structured as four interlocking sections, ‘Historiography and the Premodern Sea’, ‘Material Seas’, ‘Social and Political Seas’, and ‘Cultural Seas’.
With these aims in mind, the co-editors selected and approached contributors, carefully identifying an international mix of scholars – diverse in experience, gender, and race – to each write a substantial essay on a theme or topic that would address particular economic, social, political, legal, naval, and/or cultural aspects of early modern marine and maritime studies. Some chapters provided an authoritative overview of key topics, providing readers with an understanding of critical debates and terms, and the major shifts in historiography, while others offer new research through in-depth examinations of important topics designed to set agendas for future study. Contributors’ draft essays were commented on in detail multiple times by the editors, as part of an intensive process of revision and refinement. An extensive introduction, co-written by the editors, surveyed early modern marine and maritime worlds within global contexts and provided both an assessment of current scholarship and suggested areas of future study: less Eurocentric, less anthropocentric, but which speak to emergent transnational and intersectional cultures of activism.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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