Admission requirements
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Description
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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.
Timetable
See here.
Mode of instruction
Literature seminar
Assessment method
Students are expected to write short essays on each of the books.
Blackboard
No
Reading list
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 ppMerja-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), also in Penguin paperback, ISBN 0140288961, 976 p.
Registration
Contact information
E-mail: Prof.dr. H.J. den Heijer