Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era

Includes essays that 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 the author

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. Carole Shammas is Professor Emerita and John R. Hubbard Chair Emerita in History at the University of Southern California.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Mancall (Editor), Peter C. Mancall (Editor), Carole Shammas (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9780873282604
• ISBN: 978-0-87328-260-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Illustrations: 25 ill.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918