Maritime History: A Gateway to Global History?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélia Polónia
Keyword(s):  
Maritime History ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Global History ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Trade Competition

This chapter introduces the structure and content of the volume and provides an overview of each chapter. It also provides definitions of maritime history, globalisation, and the differences between the study of maritime history and the study of global history. It gives an overview of recent maritime historiography and the existing intersection between maritime history and global history. It concludes by claiming that the dynamics of global trade - competition and cooperation in past and present alike - have become central to to the study of maritime history, and asserts that the contributions to this volume reflect the hypothesis.

Closing the ‘blue hole’: Maritime history as a core element of historical research

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-332
Author(s):  
Ingo Heidbrink
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Core Element ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Blue Hole

The articles in this Forum are revised versions of papers presented in a roundtable session of the XXII International Congress of Historical Sciences, which was held in Jinan, China, during August 2015. In line with the roundtable format deployed by the congress, a broad proposition was introduced in the opening paper, followed by four responses delivered by experts in the field and a plenary discussion of the issues raised by the speakers. In this session, the proponent, Ingo Heidbrink, discussed the development of maritime history as a historical sub-discipline in relation to the emergence of world (and global) history. Particular attention was afforded to the comparative growth rates of these cognate sub-disciplines, and to the reasons why maritime history has expanded relatively slowly, leading to the emergence of a ‘blue hole’ in our knowledge and understanding of the past. The four respondents then addressed the issues raised by Heidbrink from their own disciplinary and regional perspectives. As Heidbrink’s ‘Concluding Remarks’ indicate, all participants agreed that, in itself, the allocation of a session to this subject on the core programme of the congress was a significant recognition that maritime history is a historical sub-discipline that is of relevance to the wider global community of historians, and not just those who are interested in the interaction of humans and the oceans.

Maritime History as Global History

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Maritime Transportation ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Early Modern Spain ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Global Exchange ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter and concluding chapter. The first five essays discuss the effects globalisation on shipping in the early modern period; the following three discuss maritime transportation and the economics of industrialisation from the nineteenth century to the present day; the next discusses the impact of global entrepreneurialism on maritime history; the penultimate discusses the connections and variables between maritime and global history; and the concluding chapter examines the theoretical assumptions surrounding the two disciplines, using the globalisation of Early Modern Spain as a case study to do so. The study demonstrates that the core strength of maritime history is its essential place in global history, and that the process of globalisation began at sea.

scholarly journals When commerce, science, and leisure collaborated: the nineteenth-century global trade boom in natural history collections

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Coote ◽  
Alison Haynes ◽  
Jude Philp ◽  
Simon Ville
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Global History ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Business Logistics ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

AbstractNatural history products formed an important, but little studied, component of the globalization of trade in the mid nineteenth century. The trade, specifically in zoology, occurred in the face of considerable challenges. It penetrated some of the more remote areas of the globe; its products were heterogeneous and difficult to price; and exchange occurred among scientists, commercial traders, and collectors, each of whom had their own particular practices and mores. This article charts the dimensions of this trade and offers explanations about the ways in which its complexities were addressed through major developments in taxidermy, taxonomy, transport and business logistics, alternative forms of exchange, and trust-based networks. More broadly, our work speaks to current developments in global history, imperial networks, and the history of scientific collecting.

Maritime History as Global History? The Methodological Challenges and a Future Research Agenda

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fusaro
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global History ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter summarises and concludes the findings of the volume. It offers a short analysis of recent developments in maritime historiography, followed by the same analysis for global historiography. It reiterates the question at the heart of the volume, is maritime history global? It also addresses the presence of empire in maritime and global history, and the relationship to economic history. It attempts to discern how far back global history can be traced, and finds that globalisation began with the founding of Manila in the sixteenth century, and is inextricably linked to maritime history.

Turning Maritime History into Global History: Some Conclusions from the Impact of Globalization in Early Modern Spain

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Grafe
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Early Modern Spain ◽  
Geographical Scale ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the connections between global history and maritime history by discussing the variable factors present within each discipline. It discusses maritime Spain, the role of technological trade, and the expansion of trade as the basis of analysis, and deconstructs the term ‘globalisation’ and its many definitions in attempt to provide an accurate intersection between the two disciplines. It concludes that in order to open up new perspectives, global history should not be considered on a geographical scale, but rather one that encompasses comparisons, connection, and interactions within trade.

Maritime history: A health check

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-354
Author(s):  
Jari Ojala ◽  
Stig Tenold
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Health Check ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Global History ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity

This article discusses publishing trends within maritime history. The first part uses a purpose-built database to analyse information on more than 300 authors who have published in the International Journal of Maritime History, the leading journal within the field. The analysis of these data reveals that there is a substantial heterogeneity among those that publish maritime history articles. The second part of the article compares the development of publishing within maritime history with two other sub-disciplines, ‘world history’ and ‘global history’. Finally, the authors argue that maritime history is a very good entry point for other types of research, both historical analyses and other types of scholarship.

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