Introduction KENNETH MORGAN PART 1 Shipping 1 The Rise, Greatness and Fall of the Dutch Shipbuilding Industry VICTOR ENTHOVEN 2 Ships for the Company: Meeting the Dutch West India Company's Shipping Requirements, 1621-1654 ERIK ODEGARD 3 'No Finer Fleet': The Maritime World of the East India Company JOHN MCALEER 4 Shipping in the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade: A Quantitative Profile KENNETH MORGAN 5 Studying Shipping in the Digital Era: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France SILVIA MARZAGALLI 6 Commercial Expansion and Technical Evolution of the Greek Merchant Marine in the Nineteenth Century APOSTOLOS DELIS PART 2 Ports 7 Genoa's Maritime Economy in the Early Modern Age: Port, Trade, and Merchant Communities in the International Market Network LUISA PICCINNO 8 Making and Missing a Shipping Revolution: Bristol in the Nineteenth Century JAMES BOYD 9 Industrialisation, Globalisation and the Emergence of New Port Cities: A Case Study of Piraeus KATERINA GALANI 10 From Steam Shipping to the Steel Box: Seaport Evolution in West Africa in the Long Dur é e DANIEL CASTILLO HIDALGO AND AYODEJI OLUKOJU 11 Explaining the Current Status and Influencing Factors of Contemporary South Asian Port Development LIU PENG, LI KEXIN, AND CAO YE PART 3 Merchants and Trade 12 Finding Smugglers in the Least Likely Place - The Customs Records: Statistical Evidence for Illicit Trade During the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) RICHARD STONE 13 The Carrera de Indias: Maritime Routes and Merchant Networks in the Spanish Empire, 1500-1750 ANA CRESPO SOLANA 14 Merchants and Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World THOMAS M. TRUXES 15 A 'Slaving Port'? The Captive and Conventional Trades in Newport, Rhode Island, 1768-1775 SEAN M. KELLEY 16 Towards Abolition: The British Slave Trade and Its Caribbean Markets, 1783-1807 KENNETH MORGAN PART 4 Maritime Environments 17 A Place of Immense Advantage: The South Atlantic Island of St Helena ANDREW PEARSON 18 The House of the Devil: Seafaring the Atlantic World in the Early Modern Era VICTOR ENTHOVEN 19 Longitude Found: Innovation and Navigational Practice, 1750-1860 RICHARD DUNN 20 Maritime Heritage Versus Maritime History INGO K. HEIDBRINK PART 5 Coastal Zones 21 Controlling the Coast: Law, Conflict, and Sovereignty in the Littoral Zone in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Ghana DAVID WILSON 22 'It's an Ill Wind That Blows Good to Nobody': The Environment, Shipwrecks and Wrecking in Atlantic Ireland's Nineteenth Century Blasket Islands CATHRYN PEARCE 23 Charting and Mapping the Irish Coast, c.1200-1900 PATRICK O'FLANAGAN PART 6 The Human Dimension 24 The Movement of Unfree People Across the Atlantic in the Early Modern Maritime World TREVOR BURNARD 25 Gendering European Seaports in the First Global Age, 1500-1800. The Portuguese Case AMELIA POLONIA 26 Lives at Sea: Seafarers and Social History, c. 1500-1800 RICHARD J. BLAKEMORE.