Empires of the Sea

Maritime Power Networks in World History
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40766-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean

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 contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Strootman, Rolf

Eijnde, Floris van den

Wijk, Roy van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Maritime Empires in World History

Rolf Strootman

Part 1

The Middle Sea

2 A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae

Jorrit M. Kelder

3 The “First Athenian Empire”? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period

Floris van den Eijnde

4 Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s

Roy van Wijk

5 The Ptolemaic Sea Empire

Rolf Strootman

6 The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire

Thomas Kirk

Part 2

The Northern Seas

7 Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas

Marco Mostert

8 Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire

Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm

9 Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici – A Maritime Empire?

Olaf Mörke

Part 3

The Oceans

10 Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade

Anjana Singh

11 The Melaka Empire, c. 1400–1528

Peter Borschberg

12 The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks

Catia Antunes

13 The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy: Creative Absorption and the Company Empire in Asia

Remco Raben

14 Pirate Networks in the Caribbean

Kris Lane

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rolf Strootman is associate professor of History at Utrecht University. He studies imperialism and cultural encounters in the ancient Mediterranean. He is the author of Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires (2014) and co-editor of Persianism in Antiquity (2017).

Floris van den Eijnde is assistant professor of History at Utrecht University. He studies Iron Age and Archaic Athenian society. He co-edited Feasting and Polis Institutions (2017) and is editor of the Brill series Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean.

Roy van Wijk studies at Utrecht University and is now researcher at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. He is currently working on a PhD on the interstate relations between Attica and Boeotia from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

Contributors are: Catia Antunes, Peter Borschberg, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Jorrit Kelder, Thomas Kirk, Kris Lane, Olaf Mörke, Marco Mostert, Remco Raben, Anjana Singh, Rolf Strootman, Floris van den Eijnde, Roy van Wijk.