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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MARINE AND MARITIME WORLDS 1400-1800
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MARINE AND MARITIME WORLDS 1400-1800
    CLAIRE JOWITT / ‎CRAIG LAMBERT / ‎STEVE MENTZ
    The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the ...

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  • THE ARTS OF 17TH-CENTURY SCIENCE
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    THE ARTS OF 17TH-CENTURY SCIENCE
    CLAIRE JOWITT / DIANE WATT
    Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition with them. It is this complex process of competition and negotiation concerning ways of se...

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  • THE CULTURE OF PIRACY, 1580–1630
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    THE CULTURE OF PIRACY, 1580–1630
    CLAIRE JOWITT
    Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationa...

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  • RICHARD HAKLUYT AND TRAVEL WRITING IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
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    RICHARD HAKLUYT AND TRAVEL WRITING IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    CLAIRE JOWITT
    Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also...

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