In 1485, England was a small, inward-looking country, its priorities predominantly domestic and European. Over the subsequent two centuries, however, this country was transformed into the world's leading maritime power, as the people of the British Isles turned to the sea in search of adventure, wealth and rule.
Explorers voyaged into unknown regions of the world, while merchants, following in their wake, established lucrative trade routes with the furthest reaches of the globe. At home, people across Britain increasingly engaged with the sea, whether thorough their own lived experiences or through songs, prose and countless other forms of material culture. This is therefore a story of sailors, traders and naval officers, but also of instrument-makers, dockyard workers and the scores of Britons whose livelihoods depended on seaborne commerce.
By the turn of the eighteenth-century, Britain was no longer a peripheral European nation but a fully-fledged maritime power. This development is central to the nation's story, and this book argues that what transpired at sea shaped the course of British history.
Tudor and Stuart Seafarers showcases a stellar cast of contributors, bringing together leading naval and maritime historians alongside historians of exploration and empire, and those who study the art, science and literature of the early-modern period. Lavishly illustrated with objects from the National Maritime Museum's collections, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in maritime history.
Edited by:
James Davey
Imprint: Adlard Coles
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 189mm,
Weight: 1.190kg
ISBN: 9781472956767
ISBN 10: 1472956761
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction James Davey 1 `New Worlds': 1485-1505 Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 2 Adventurers: England Turns to the Sea, 1550-1580 James Davey 3 The Spanish Armada and England's Conflict with Spain, 1585-1604 David Scott 4 Building a Navy J D Davies 5 Using the Seas and Skies: Navigation in Early-Modern England Megan Barford and Louise Devoy 6 Encounter and Exploitation: the English Colonization of North America, 1585-1615 Laura Humphreys 7 Of Profit and Loss: The Trading World of Seventeenth-Century England Robert J Blyth 8 The British Civil Wars, 1638-53 Elaine Murphy 9 Life at Sea Richard Blakemore 10 The Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Wars Rebecca Rideal 11 A Sea of Scoundrels: Pirates of the Stuart Era Aaron Jaffer 12 Art and the Maritime World, 1550-1714 Christine Riding
James Davey is Lecturer in Naval and Maritime History at the University of Exeter, and formerly Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He holds degrees from King's College London and the University of Oxford, and completed his PhD at the University of Greenwich in early 2010. He is the author of The Transformation of British Naval Strategy: Seapower and Supply in Northern Europe 1808-1812 and In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars, and was a volume editor on Nelson, Navy and Nation. In 2015 he was awarded the Jan Glete Prize by the Swedish Society for Maritime History. Tudor and Stuart Seafarers contains contributions from Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, David Scott, J. D. Davies, Megan Barford, Louise Devoy, Laura Humphreys, Robert J. Blyth, Elaine Murphy, Richard J. Blakemore, Rebecca Rideal, Aaron Jaffer and Christine Riding. The National Maritime Museum is the world's largest maritime museum, telling stories of Britain's epic relationship with the sea global exploration, cultural exchange and human endurance.
Reviews for Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707
"""Tudor & Stuart Seafarers is a highly readable and entertaining book, and it's impossible to come away from it without learning something new."" - Pirates and Privateers"