Global Ocean of Knowledge, 1660–1860: Globalization and Maritime Knowledge in the Atlantic World

✍ Scribed by Karel Davids

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book looks to fill the ‘blue hole’ in Global History by studying the role of the oceans itself in the creation, development, reproduction and adaptation of knowledge across the Atlantic world. It shows how globalization and the growth of maritime knowledge served to reinforce one another, and demonstrates how and why maritime history should be put firmly at the heart of global history.
Exploring the dynamics of globalization, knowledge-making and European expansion, Global Oceans in the Atlantic World takes a transnational approach and transgresses the traditional border between the early modern and modern periods. It focuses on three main periodisations, which correspond with major transformations in the globalization of the Atlantic World, and analyses how and to what extent globalization forces from above and from below influenced the development and exchange of knowledge. Davids distinguishes three forms of globalizing forces ‘from above’; imperial, commercial and religious, alongside self-organization, the globalizing force ‘from below’. Exploring how globalization advanced and its relationship with knowledge changed over time, this book bridges global, maritime, intellectual and economic history to reflect on the role of the oceans in making the world a more connected place

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Preface
Introduction: Globalization, knowledge and the Atlantic world
Key issues
Globalization
Knowledge
The Atlantic world, c. 1660–1860
Globalizing forces
Approach and argument
Part 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge in the Atlantic world, c. 1660–1730
Introduction: Globalization between c. 1660 and 1730
Chapter 1: Globalizing forces and the growth of maritime knowledge
Machines and the making of infrastructure
Self-organization and social networks
Chapter 2: Growing maritime knowledge and globalization
Designing ships, navigating the ocean and probing the depths
Observing living creatures in and above the water
Keeping the humans on board alive
Conclusion
Capabilities and limitations
Changes
Part 2: Maritime knowledge and globalization in the Atlantic world, c. 1730–1800
Introduction: Globalization between c. 1730 and 1800
Chapter 3: The maritime knowledge supporting globalization
Faster ships
Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care
Chapter 4: The globalizing forces supporting maritime knowledge
Imperial and commercial machines and the growth of infrastructure for maritime knowledge
Self-organized networks and the circulation of maritime knowledge
Conclusion
Capabilities and limitations
Changes
Part 3: The reshaping of the Atlantic world and the collectivization of maritime knowledge, c. 1800–60
Introduction: Globalization between c. 1800 and 1860
Chapter 5: Maritime knowledge and globalization: Advances and lags
Increasing speed, lagging safety
Improving the chances of survival: Mortality and health care
Growing harvests from the sea: Fishing, sealing and whaling
Chapter 6: Globalizing forces and the collectivization of maritime knowledge
Imperial machines, infrastructure and the circulation of maritime knowledge
Self-organization, infrastructure and the circulation of maritime knowledge
Conclusion
Capabilities and limitations
Changes
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Conclusion
Part II: Introduction
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Conclusion
Part III: Introduction
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Conclusion
Conclusion
Sources and bibliography
Archives
Manuscripts
Websites
Published primary sources
Bibliography
Index