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[A] fascinating volume, which establishes marine environmental
history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an
exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the
public. ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE The HMAP
project is to be congratulated on this book, which presents vivid,
evidence-based reconstructions of historical fisheries and the
prolific ecosystems in which they were embedded. TONY J. PITCHER,
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The ingenuity and scholarship of the
authors allow us to see ... how human societies have depended on
and influenced marine living resources from periwinkles to whales.
MIKE SINCLAIR, BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY This book exalts
the surprisingly fruitful marriage of historians and marine
scientists - a union that has proven to be one of the most exciting
developments in ocean research in recent years. KATHERINE
RICHARDSON, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN For centuries the seas
appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources,
their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. In more recent
times, episodes such as the extreme exploitation and subsequent
collapse of cod populations of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland
have highlighted the fallaciousness of this view. Yet all too often
the lessons from our historical interactions with marine animals
are little known, let alone learned. Based on research for the
History of Marine Animal Populations project, Oceans Past examines
the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the
animals that inhabit it. It presents eleven studies ranging from
fisheries and invasive species to offshore technology and the study
of marine environmental history, bringing together the perspectives
of historians and marine scientists to enhance understanding of
ocean management of the past, present and future. In doing so, it
also highlights the influence that changes in marine ecosystems
have upon the politics, welfare and culture of human societies.
[A] fascinating volume, which establishes marine environmental
history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an
exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the
public. ANDREW A. ROSENBERG, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE The HMAP
project is to be congratulated on this book, which presents vivid,
evidence-based reconstructions of historical fisheries and the
prolific ecosystems in which they were embedded. TONY J. PITCHER,
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The ingenuity and scholarship of the
authors allow us to see ... how human societies have depended on
and influenced marine living resources from periwinkles to whales.
MIKE SINCLAIR, BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY This book exalts
the surprisingly fruitful marriage of historians and marine
scientists - a union that has proven to be one of the most exciting
developments in ocean research in recent years. KATHERINE
RICHARDSON, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN For centuries the seas
appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources,
their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. In more recent
times, episodes such as the extreme exploitation and subsequent
collapse of cod populations of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland
have highlighted the fallaciousness of this view. Yet all too often
the lessons from our historical interactions with marine animals
are little known, let alone learned. Based on research for the
History of Marine Animal Populations project, Oceans Past examines
the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the
animals that inhabit it. It presents eleven studies ranging from
fisheries and invasive species to offshore technology and the study
of marine environmental history, bringing together the perspectives
of historians and marine scientists to enhance understanding of
ocean management of the past, present and future. In doing so, it
also highlights the influence that changes in marine ecosystems
have upon the politics, welfare and culture of human societies.
"Exploiting the Sea" offers new perspectives on Britain's vital but
changing relationship with the sea since the late nineteenth
century. It assesses the significance to the British economy of
sea-reliant industries such as shipping, shipbuilding, fishing,
coastal trading and seaside tourism. It also seeks to explain why
the clear pre-eminence that Britain established in the maritime
world during the Victorian era has not been sustained in the
twentieth century. "Exploiting the Sea" is a new volume in the
highly successful EXETER MARITIME STUDIES series, and brings
together contributions from experts writing in their own specialist
fields to give a wide-ranging but structured analytical approach to
a misunderstood subject.
Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the
attacks of predators acting within or without the law. In the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such assaults reached new
heights as the development of trans-oceanic empires increased
massively the wealth and extent of sea-borne trade, and with it the
potential for prize-taking. Pirates and Privateers focuses on the
character of pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies
and China, and on the scale and significance of privateering
operations based in the principal European maritime states. It
brings together the latest work of an internationally renowned
group of scholars to shed fresh light on the fascinating,
frequently misunderstood subject of violence at sea in the age of
sail.
A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at
sea in the early modern period. Maritime social history is a
relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings
being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the subject. This
book, together with its companion volume The Social History of
English Seamen, 1485-1649 (The Boydell Press, 2011), pulls together
and makes accessible this large body of research work. Subjects
covered include life at sea in different parts of the period for
both officers and seamen, in both the navy and in merchant ships;
piracy and privateering; health, health care and disability;
seamen's food; homosexuality afloat; and the role of women at sea
and on land. Written by leading experts in their field, the
volumesoffer a nuanced portrait of seafarers' existence as well as
an overview of the current state of the historiography. CHERYL A.
FURY is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick
(Saint John campus) and a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for War and
Society. Contributors: J.D. ALSOP, JOHN APPLEBY, JEREMY BLACK, B.
R. BURG, BERNARD CAPP, PETER EARLE, CHERYL A. FURY, MARGARETTE
LINCOLN, DAVID MCLEAN, N. A. M. RODGER, DAVID STARKEY
An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved
the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade.
In performing these tasks, state navies were augmented by
privateers, vessels owned, equipped and manned by private
individuals authorised by their governments to attack and seize the
enemy's seabourne property. For their reward, the investors and
seafarers engaged in privateering ventures shared in the proceeds
of any ships and goods taken and condemned as lawful prize.
Privateering therefore represented a business opportunity to the
maritime community, a chance to acquire instant wealth at the
enemy's expense; at the same time, it appeared as a cheap
convenient means by which the state might supplement its naval
strength. In this important analysis David J. Starkey draws upon a
wealth of documentary evidence to throw fresh light upon the
character, scale and significance of the British privateering
business.
Considers naval leadership and management very widely, moving
beyond a focus on leading admirals. Many works on naval history
ascribe success to the special qualities of individual leaders,
Nelson being the prime example. This book in contrast moves away
from focusing on Nelson and other leading individuals to explore
more fully how naval leadership worked in the context of a large,
complex, globally-capable institution. It puts forward important
original scholarship around four main themes: the place of the hero
in naval leadership; organisational friction in matters of command;
the role of management capability in the exercise of naval power;
and the evolution of management and technical training in the Royal
Navy. Besides providing much new, interesting material for naval
and maritime historians, the book also offers important insights
for management and leadership specialists more generally. HELEN DOE
is a Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies,
University of Exeter and author of Enterprising Women and Shipping
(Boydell, 2009). RICHARD HARDING is Professor of Organisational
History at the University of Westminster and author of The
Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy (Boydell, 2010),
Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (Royal Historical
Society, 1991) and six other books. Contributors: GARETH COLE, MIKE
FARQUHARSON-ROBERTS, MARY JONES, ROGER KNIGHT, ROGER MORRISS,
ELINOR ROMANS, DAVID J. STARKEY, PETER WARD, OLIVER WALTON, BRITT
ZERBE.
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