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 course-schedule
Mode of instruction
Tutorial (attendance compulsory)
Assessment method
Students are expected to write short essays on each of the books.
Blackboard
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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), ook in Penguin paperback, ISBN 0140288961, 976 p.