Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University of London. His teaching and research focus on maritime history, slavery and the slave trade, emigration and immigration, and music history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous publications include Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007), Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia (2016), and Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia (2021).

• IntroductionKENNETH MORGANPART 1Shipping1 The Rise, Greatness and Fall of the Dutch Shipbuilding IndustryVICTOR ENTHOVEN2 Ships for the Company: Meeting the Dutch West India Company’s Shipping Requirements, 1621–1654ERIK ODEGARD3 ‘No Finer Fleet’: The Maritime World of the East India CompanyJOHN MCALEER4 Shipping in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade: A Quantitative ProfileKENNETH MORGAN5 Studying Shipping in the Digital Era: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary FranceSILVIA MARZAGALLI6 Commercial Expansion and Technical Evolution of the Greek Merchant Marine in the Nineteenth CenturyAPOSTOLOS DELISPART 2Ports7 Genoa’s Maritime Economy in the Early Modern Age: Port, Trade, and Merchant Communities in the International Market NetworkLUISA PICCINNO8 Making and Missing a Shipping Revolution: Bristol in the Nineteenth CenturyJAMES BOYD9 Industrialisation, Globalisation and the Emergence of New Port Cities: A Case Study of PiraeusKATERINA GALANI10 From Steam Shipping to the Steel Box: Seaport Evolution in West Africa in the Long DuréeDANIEL CASTILLO HIDALGO AND AYODEJI OLUKOJU11 Explaining the Current Status and Influencing Factors of Contemporary South Asian Port DevelopmentLIU PENG, LI KEXIN, AND CAO YEPART 3Merchants and Trade12 Finding Smugglers in the Least Likely Place – The Customs Records: Statistical Evidence for Illicit Trade During the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)RICHARD STONE13 The Carrera de Indias: Maritime Routes and Merchant Networks in the Spanish Empire, 1500–1750ANA CRESPO SOLANA14 Merchants and Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic WorldTHOMAS M. TRUXES15 A ‘Slaving Port’? The Captive and Conventional Trades in Newport, Rhode Island, 1768–1775SEAN M. KELLEY16 Towards Abolition: The British Slave Trade and Its Caribbean Markets, 1783–1807KENNETH MORGANPART 4Maritime Environments17 A Place of Immense Advantage: The South Atlantic Island of St HelenaANDREW PEARSON18 The House of the Devil: Seafaring the Atlantic World in the Early Modern EraVICTOR ENTHOVEN19 Longitude Found: Innovation and Navigational Practice, 1750–1860RICHARD DUNN20 Maritime Heritage Versus Maritime HistoryINGO K. HEIDBRINKPART 5Coastal Zones21 Controlling the Coast: Law, Conflict, and Sovereignty in the Littoral Zone in Pre-Colonial and Colonial GhanaDAVID WILSON22 'It’s an Ill Wind That Blows Good to Nobody’: The Environment, Shipwrecks and Wrecking in Atlantic Ireland’s Nineteenth Century Blasket IslandsCATHRYN PEARCE23 Charting and Mapping the Irish Coast, c.1200–1900PATRICK O’FLANAGANPART 6The Human Dimension24 The Movement of Unfree People Across the Atlantic in the Early Modern Maritime WorldTREVOR BURNARD25 Gendering European Seaports in the First Global Age, 1500–1800. The Portuguese CaseAMELIA POLONIA26 Lives at Sea: Seafarers and Social History, c. 1500–1800RICHARD J. BLAKEMORE