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Aspects of maritime history

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2009-2010

Time Table

Semester I, see timetables.

Method of Instruction

Tutorials; attendance is compulsory (see the rules and regulations of the Department of History, art. 2).

Course objectives

Students acquire a profound understanding of the recent scholarly discussions in the maritime history by reading a number of influential works which students are expected to have studied prior to the session in which these books are discussed.

Required reading

  • J.R. Bruijn, Varend verleden. De Nederlandse oorlogsvloot in de 17de en 18de eeuw (Amsterdam 1998, ISBN 90.5018.407.3; 290 p.) (Or the English edition: The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Columbia, SC, 1993, ISBN 0.87249.875.1; 240 p.);

  • P. Butel, The Atlantic ( London 1999, ISBN 0.415.10690.7; 300 p.);

  • J.N.F.M. À. Campo, Engines of empire. Steamshipping and state formation in colonial Indonesia (Hilversum: Verloren, 2002 ISBN 90-6550-738-8) 690 p.
    Hilversum (2003). Cloth. With illustrations. 687 pp

  • Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, David Kirby, The Baltic and the North Seas (London 2000, ISBN 0415132827, 368 p.)

  • M. Pearson, The Indian Ocean (London 2003, ISBN 0.415.21489.0; 290 p.)

  • N.A.M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 (London 2004, ISBN 0713994118 (hardback), ook in Penguin paperback, ISBN 0140288961, 976 p.

Examination

Students are expected to write short essays on each of the books.

Information

With the tutors: Dr. H.J. den Heijer and Prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra

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