Maritime history as connected history and as
connecting histories
Felicia Gottmann, University of Warwick
ECS: Maritime Worlds Workshop, Beineke Library, 23 May 2013
Maritime history as connected history and as connecting
histories
1) Oceans
I) Mediterranean
II) Indian Ocean
III) Atlantic
2) Maritime History as Connected or Global History
I) Trading Networks:
II) Object Centred Narratives – or ‘vertical maritime networks’'
3) Maritime personnel as the avant-garde of global connection
Maritime history as connected history and as
connecting histories
1) Oceans
I) Mediterranean
II) Indian Ocean
III) Atlantic
2) Maritime History as Connected or Global History
I) Trading Networks:
II) Object Centred Narratives – or ‘vertical maritime networks’'
3) Maritime personnel as the avant-garde of global connection
Maritime personnel as the avant-garde of global
connection
General Study: Exeter
Dr Maria Fusaro’s ERC-funded project Sailing into Modernity: comparative perspectives on the
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European economic transition.
This Year’s Maritime History Conference at Uni of Exeter: Working Lives between the Deck
and the Dock: Comparative Perspectives on Sailors as International Labourers (16th - 18th
century) University of Exeter 10 - 12 September 2013
Meike Fellinger (University of Warwick)
Thesis title: “Beyond company control: merchants, mariners and the British private trade in
Chinese export wares, c.1720-1763.”
Eugénie Margoline-Plot (University of South Brittany)
Thesis title: ‘’Les circuits parallèles de diffusion des toiles de l'Océan indien en Bretagne au
XVIIIe siècle’’, thèse sous la direction de Gérard Le Bouëdec, Université de Bretagne Sud,
Lorient.
Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta)
Current project, funded by the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada:
"Fashioning the British Atlantic World: Fashion Actors, Innovators and Networks in an Era of
Global Trade, c. 1600-1800".