The Terror of the Seas?

Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18568-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 945 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word ‘piracy’ as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obscures a complex picture of Scottish maritime warfare. Through the use of letters of marque and reprisal (rightly distinguished in this analysis) as well as dedicated Crown fleets, Scottish warfare against against a wide range of enemies are scrutinised. This is an impressive book that makes and important contribution to our knowledge of European naval warfare. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little known, or unknown, aspects of naval history. It also provides many valuable new perspectives on the importance of the sea to the Scots, and of the Scots to the naval history of the British Isles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murdoch, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. ix
Abbreviations. xi
Stylistic Conventions. xiii
List of Illustrations. xv

Foreword. xvii
Introduction. 1
Chapter One: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513–1560. 33
Chapter Two: Letters of Reprisal. 79
Chapter Three: ‘Peacetime’ and Piracy, 1560–1618. 111
Chapter Four: The ‘Marque Fleets’ of Scotland, 1618–1638. 153
Chapter Five: Scottish Maritime Warfare in the British Civil Wars, 1638–1660. 191
Chapter Six: The ‘Scottish-Dutch’ Wars, 1665–1667 and 1672–1674. 237
Chapter Seven: The Franco-Scottish Wars: 1689–1697 and 1702–1713. 283
Conclusion. 325

Bibliography. 331
Appendices. 351
Index. 419
Illustration Section

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Murdoch, PhD. (1998) is Reader in History at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on Scotland and the Wider World and his major publications include Network North: Scottish Kin Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Leiden, 2006) and with Alexia Grosjean, Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (Leiden, 2005).