Can I read A World at Sea on EtoBox?

A World at Sea by Lauren Benton;Nathan Perl-Rosenthal; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A World at Sea about?

Cover 1 A World at Sea 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Introduction: Making Maritime History Global 8 Part I. Currents 22 Chapter 1. Why Did Anyone Go to Sea? Structures of Maritime Enlistment from Family Traditions to Violent Coercion 24 Chapter 2. Between the Company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over Deerskins 44 Chapter 3. “The Law Is the Lord of the Sea”: Maritime Law as Global Maritime History 60 Part II. Dispatches 80 Chapter 4. Reading Cargoes: Letters and the Problem of Nationality in the Age of Privateering 82 Chapter 5. Sailors, States, and the Creation of Nautical Knowledge 96 Chapter 6. Indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production 115 Part III. Thresholds 138 Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in Colonial Borderlands 140 Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the Water’s Edge: Japan’s Opening as Coastal Encounter 156 Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: A Global Survey of Women in Premodern and Early Modern Fisheries 175 Afterword: Land-Sea Regimes in World History 193 Notes 200 List of Contributors 254 Index 256 Acknowledgments 276

Author

Lauren Benton;Nathan Perl-Rosenthal;

Language

EN