Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Ritchie - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873282604 ISBN 13: 9780873282604

Publisher: Huntington Library Press, 2015

Synopsis

Early modern European governments and their subjects had difficulty agreeing to laws governing behavior on the sea—an environment that featured watery borders, rampant piracy, the threat of free trade, and the large-scale transportation of human cargo. The essays in this volume explore how the exploitation of the oceans changed the institution of slavery, long-distance trade, property crime, the environment, literature, and memory from medieval times to the nineteenth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Carole Shammas is Professor Emerita and John R. Hubbard Chair Emerita in History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Huntington Library Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0873282604
• ISBN 13: 9780873282604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Shammas Carole, Mancall Peter