The Baltic and the North Seas / Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen.

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The seas discovered; The seas emerge; Waters, saline and brackish; The scientific 'discovery' of the sea; 2. The seas repulsed; Keeping the sea at bay; Living with the waves; Reclaiming the land; Living by the sea; 3. The seas imagined; Maps of experience; Stormy seas, safe harbour; The view from the shore; Beside the seaside; Fixing the boundaries; 4. Voyaging; Charting the northern seas; The art of navigation; Routes and obstacles; Speeds and sailing performance; Havens.
• 5. Boats and shipsBeginnings; Cogs, knarrs and hulks; Ships and shipbuilding in the early modern era; Shipbuilders; 6. Seafaring and power; Traders, raiders and rulers (c.200-1200); Merchants, princes and pirates (c.1200-1500); The struggle for the mastery of the sea (c.1500-1720); The era of great power politics (1720-1918); 7. Trade and traders; Commodities and markets; Coastal trade; The challenge of steam; The mercantile experience of the sea; 8. Fishing; The catch and the market; Conservation and exploitation; Innovation and adaptability: fishing as a livelihood; 9. Mariners.
• A race apart?Who went to sea?; Fighting men; Pay and conditions; Changing patterns of work; 10. Sailors and the sea; A sailing way of life; The sea of experience; 11. Maritime women; On the sea's threshold?; Maritime gender roles; Marriages on the water; The loneliness of long-distance waiting; Women and shipboard labour; 12. The seas threatened; The sea out of sight; The sea in sight; From fish to oil; Endangered environment; Politics and pleasure; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

• Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and exploited their seas, this book reveals how human perception of the northern seas has changed over time.Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from Denmark and Britain to Norway, Finland and Germany, The Baltic and the North Seas is an insightful and colourful history of the politics, economy and culture of this intriguing region.

Ämnesord

Ekonomisk historia  -- Östersjöländerna (sao)

Ekonomisk historia  -- Nordsjön (sao)

Baltic Sea Region -- Commerce. 

Baltic Sea Region. 

North Sea Region -- Commerce. 

North Sea Region. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Publikations- och innehållstyp

HF4045 .K57 (LCC)

387.54/0948 (DDC)

Prcd (kssb/8 (machine generated))