Maritime & Global Contexts

Abulafia, David. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. London: Penguin 2012.

Amrith, Sunil. Crossing the Bay of Bengal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours. London: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Blum, Hester. The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Bosa, Miguel Suárez (eds). Atlantic Ports and the First Globalisation c. 1850–1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Broeze, Frank (ed.). Maritime History at the Crossroads: A Critical Review of Recent Historiography. Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 1998.

Finamore, Daniel (ed.). Maritime History as World History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.

Fogelman, Aaron. “The Transformation of the Atlantic World, 1776 – 1867.” Atlantic Studies, 6, no. 1, (2009): 5 – 28.

Games, Alison. “AHR Forum: Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges and Opportunities.” The American Historical Review, 111, no. 3, (2006): 741 – 757.

Gipoluloux, Francois. The Asian Mediterranean: Port Cities and Trading Networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, 13th – 21st Century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.

Graf, Arndt and Chua Beng Huat (eds). Port Cities in Asia and Europe. London: Routledge, 2009.

Gray, Steven. “Coaling warships with naval labour, 1870–1914: I wish I could get hold of that man who first found coal.” The Mariner’s Mirror 101, no. 2, (2015): 168-183.

Gray, Steven. “Welsh coal and the informal empire in South America, 1850–1913.” Atlantic Studies 13, no. 1(2016): 53-77.

Gray, Steven. Steam Power and Sea Power: Coal, the Royal Navy, and the British Empire, c. 1870-1914. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Gray, Steven. “Fuelling mobility: coal and Britain’s naval power, c. 1870–1914.” Journal of Historical Geography 58, (2017): 92-103.

Hein, Carola (ed.). Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks. London: Routledge, 2011.

Kupperman, Karen. The Atlantic in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Klein, Bernard and Gesa Mackenthure (eds). Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. London: Routledge, 2004.

Knight, F. W. and P. K. Liss (eds). Atlantic Port Cities: Economics, Culture and Society in the Atlantic World 1650 – 1850. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Lewis, Martin and Karen Wigën. The Myth of Continents: a Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Lincoln, Margarette. Trading in War. London’s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2018.

Manning, Patrick. “Global History and Maritime History.” International Journal of Maritime History 25, 1 (2013): 1 – 22.

Matsuda, Matthew. “AHR Forum: The Pacific.” The American Historical Review 111, no. 3, (2006): 758 – 780.

Morgan, Kenneth. Britain and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Morrison, Dane. True Yankees: The South Seas & The Discovery of American Identity. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2014.

O’ Flanagan, Patrick. Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia c.1500 – 1900. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

O’ Hara, Glen. ““The Sea is Swinging into View”: Modern British Maritime History in a Globalised World.” English Historical Review 124, no. 5, (2009): 1109 – 1134.

O’Reilly, William. “Genealogies of Atlantic History.” Atlantic Studies 1, no. 1, (2004): 66 – 84.

Palmer, Sarah. “Current Port Trends.” Journal for Maritime Research 1, no. 1, (1999): 99 – 111.

Palmer, Sarah. “The Maritime World in Historical Perspective”, International Journal of Maritime History 23, no. 1, (2011): 1 – 20.

Pearson, Michael. Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Rediker, Marcus. Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Boston: Beacon, 2014.

Steinberg, Philip. The Sociological Construction of the Ocean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Wigën, Karen. “AHR Forum: Oceans of History – Introduction.” The American Historical Review 111, no. 3, (2006): 717 – 721.

Zumerchik, John and Steven L. Danver,(eds)Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopaedia of History, Uses and Issues. California: ABC-Clio, 2010.