2. Commanding the World Itself : Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot Influence on Early English Sea Power

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Note on Conventions and Terminology 11
5. Introduction 13
6. 1. The Minion and Its Travels: Sailing to Guinea in the Sixteenth Century 37
7. 2. Commanding the World Itself : Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popelinière, and the Huguenot Influence on Early English Sea Power 67
8. 3. An Investigation of the Size and Geographical Distribution of the English, Welsh, and Channel Islands Merchant Fleet: A Case Study of 1571–72 81
9. 4. An Evaluation of Scottish Trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 105
10. 5. Performing ‘Water’ Ralegh : The Cultural Politics of Sea Captains in Late Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama 125
11. 6. ‘Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments’ : Capital Trials aboard the Early East India Company Voyages 153
12. 7. ‘A water bawdy house’: Women and the Navy in the British Civil Wars 173
13. 8. ‘Thy sceptre to a trident change / And straight , unruly seas thou canst command’: Contemporary Representations of King Charles I and the Ship Money Fleets within the Cultural Imagination of Caroline England 193
14. 9. ‘Proud Symbols of the Prospering Rural Seamen’ : Scottish Church Ship Models and the Shipmaster’s Societies of North East Scotland in the Late 17th Century 229
15. 10. Systematizing the Sea : Knowledge, Power and Maritime Sovereignty in Late Seventeenth-Century Science 257
16. Select Bibliography 283
17. About the Contributors 311
18. Index 317