Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Making Maritime history Global 1
4. Part I. Currents
5. Chapter 1. Why did anyone Go to sea? structures of Maritime enlistment from family Traditions to Violent coercion 17
6. Chapter 2. Between the company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over deerskins 37
7. Chapter 3. “The law is the lord of the sea”: Maritime law as Global Maritime history 53
8. Part II. Dispatches
9. Chapter 4. reading cargoes: letters and the Problem of nationality in the age of Privateering 75
10. Chapter 5. sailors, states, and the creation of nautical Knowledge 89
11. Chapter 6. indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production 108
12. Part III. Thresholds
13. Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in colonial Borderlands 133
14. Chapter 8. sovereignty at the Water’s edge: Japan’s opening as coastal encounter 149
15. Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: a Global survey of Women in Premodern and early Modern fisheries 168
16. Afterword: land- sea regimes in World history 186
17. Notes 193
18. List of contributors 247
19. Index 249
20. Acknowledgments 269