The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain

List of illustrations, List of tables, Acknowledgements, Note on conventions, Introduction (Richard Blakemore and James Davey), Chapter 1: The Minion and its travels: sailing to Guinea in the sixteenth century (Bernhard Klein), Chapter 2: Commanding the World Itself: Sir Walter Ralegh, La Popeliniere, and the Huguenot influence on early English sea power (Alan James), Chapter 3: An investigation of the size and geographical distribution of the English, Welsh, and Channel Islands merchant fleet: a case Study of 1571-72 (Craig L. Lambert and Gary P. Baker), Chapter 4: An evaluation of Scottish trade with Iberia during the Anglo-Spanish War, 1585-1604 (Claire McLoughlin), Chapter 5: Performing 'Water' Ralegh: the cultural politics of sea captains in late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama (Claire Jowitt), Chapter 6: 'Wicked Actions Merit Fearful Judgments': capital trials aboard the early East India Company voyages (Cheryl Fury), Chapter 7 'A water bawdy house': women and the navy in the British Civil Wars (Elaine Murphy), Chapter 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. (Rebecca A. Bailey), Chapter 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 (Meredith Greiling), Chapter 10 Systematizing the sea: knowledge, power and maritime sovereignty in late seventeenth- century science (Philippa Hellawell), Bibliography, Index.