Empires of the Sea : a Maritime Power Networks in World History / edited by Rolf Strootman ; Floris van den Eijnde ; Roy van Wijk.

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Maritime Empires in World History / Rolf Strootman -- The Middle Sea -- A Thousand Black Ships: Maritime Trade, Diplomatic Relations, and the Rise of Mycenae / Jorrit M. Kelder -- The "First Athenian Empire"? Athenian Overseas Interests in the Archaic Period / Floris van den Eijnde -- Contested Hegemonies: Thebes, Athens and Persia in the Aegean of the 360s / Roy van Wijk -- The Ptolemaic Sea Empire / Rolf Strootman -- The Republic of Genoa and Its Maritime Empire / Thomas Kirk -- The Northern Seas -- Linguistics of Contact in the Northern Seas / Marco Mostert -- Medieval Denmark as a Maritime Empire / Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm -- Seventeenth-Century Sweden and the Dominium Maris Baltici -- a Maritime Empire? / Olaf Mörke -- The Oceans -- Early Modern European Mercantilism and Indian Ocean Trade / Anjana Singh -- The Melaka Empire, c. 1400-1528 / Peter Borschberg -- The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks / Cátia Antunes -- The Asian Foundations of the Dutch Thalassocracy: Creative Absorption and the Company Empire in Asia / Remco Raben -- Pirate Networks in the Caribbean / Kris Lane -- Back Matter -- Index.

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.

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