Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Notes on Contributors xiii
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Abbreviations xx
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. PART I Topography
9. 2 Kent’s Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or ‘Where the Land Meets the Sea’!) 25
10. PART II Defence
11. 3 Defending the Kent Coast – Roman to Anglo-Saxon 85
12. 4 The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years’ War 111
13. 5 To Defend the Coast 133
14. 6 Kent’s Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam 149
15. PART III Trade and Industry
16. 7 Trade and Industry during the Roman Period 171
17. 8 Far-Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent 195
18. 9 Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent 215
19. 10 The Early Modern Period 1500–1700: Trade and Industry 235
20. 11 Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700 253
21. PART IV Coastal Communities
22. 12 Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports’ Status in the Middle Ages 277
23. 13 Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent’s History, c.1500–1840 299
24. 14 Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent 325
25. 15 A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities 345
26. PART V Case Studies
27. 16 The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340–1500 371
28. 17 ‘Ready for to go to the Sea’: Maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe 387
29. 18 Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent 401
30. 19 Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society 417
31. 20 ‘Dost Thou Know Dover?’: Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500–1660 433
32. 21 ‘Fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting’: Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam 451
33. 22 Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women’s Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 467
34. 23 Afterword 487
35. Bibliography 493
36. Index 547