Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- I Bound in Shallows -- II The Shallow Sea -- III Men in Lifeboats -- IV Forgotten Fleets -- V London's River -- VI Thames Delta -- VIII Isle of a Great Man -- VIII Shippe Swalower -- IX Private Enterprise -- X Lights across the Water -- XI War in the Shallows -- XII Wreck of the Sea -- XIII Lodemanage -- XIV Battles on the Banks -- XV Free Trade -- XVI The Bridge -- XVII Scapa Flow -- XVIII Queer Fish -- XIX Under the Wight -- XX The Apostolic Occupation -- XXI The Bay of Royal Blue -- XXII Fire on the Water -- XXIII North-Western Approach -- XXIV The Brotherhood -- Footnotes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Dedication -- Imprint.

In the historiography of Southeast Asia of the early modern period maritime trade has always been an important topic. A good opportunity for learning more about early modern shipping and trade is by making use of the few surviving harbourmasters' registrations of private traffic in fifteen major ports in Java around the year 1775. In this book these records, registering more than 20,000 ship movements, are analysed and interpreted in their broader context. The traffic in the shallow waters along the coast of Java appears to have experienced a rising tide of Dutch presence

'Shallow Waters, Rising Tide: Shipping the Trade in Java Around 1775,' by Gerrit J. Knaap, is reviewed.