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VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES

Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400-1800

Richard W. Unger

Ships and Shipping in the North Sea and Atlantic, 1400-1800

First published 1997 in the Variorum Collected Studies Series by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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Copyright 1997 by Richard W. Unger.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-429-42690-2 (ebk)

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CONTENTS

DUTCH SHIPBUILDING

Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis 24. Delft, 1972

Maritime History 3. Newton Abbot, 1973

The Mariner's Mirror 61. Exeter, 1975

Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis 30. Delft, 1975

First Translation o f Houten Scheepsbouw in Zeeland', Zeeuws Tijdschrift 26, 4/5, pp. 130-134. Middelburg, 1976

Postmedieval Boat and Ship Archaeology, ed. C. O. Cederlund. Oxford: B.A.R., 1985

Art in History/History in Art, eds J. de Vries and D. Friedberg. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center fo r the History o f Art and the Humanities, 1991

First Translation of 'Scheepvaart in de Noordelijke Nederlanden 1490-1580', Nieuwe Algemene Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 7, eds J. A. van Houtte etal., pp. 109-122. Haarlem: Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1979

Technology and Culture 22. Chicago, IL, 1981

Changing Interpretations and New Sources of Naval History, ed. R.W. Love. New York: Garland, 1980

Seamen in Society, Proceedings o f the International Commission of Maritime History, Perthes-en-Gatinais, France. Bucharest, 1980

Vice-Almirante A. Teixeira Da Mota In Memoriam 1. Lisbon: Academia de Marinila & Instituto de Investigagao Cientifica Tropical, 1987

The American Neptune 53, 4. Salem, MA, 1993

Atti del V Convegno Intemazionale di Studi Colombiani Navi e Navigazioni Nei Secoli XV e XVI. Genoa: Civico Istituto Colombiano, 1990

Les Marines de Guerre Europennes XVII-XVIIIe siecles, eds M. Acerra, J. Merino and J. Meyer. Paris: Presses de VUniversite de Paris-Sorbonne, 1986

The American Neptune 52, 4. Salem, MA, 1992

FISHING AND TRADE IN THE NORTH AND BALTIC SEAS

Ages: the False Legend of Willem Beukels of Biervliet Viator 9. Berkeley, CA, 1978

Journal of Economic History 40. Atlanta, GA, 1980

Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis 43. Delft, 1981

Medieval Ships and the Birth of Technological Societies 1: Northern Europe, eds C. Villain-Gandossi, S. Busuttil and P. Adam. Malta: Foundation fo r Intemtional Studies, 1989

This volume contains xii + 316 pages

PUBLISHERS NOTE

The articles in this volume, as in all others in the Collected Studies Series, have not been given a new, continuous pagination. In order to avoid confusion, and to facilitate their use where these same studies have been referred to elsewhere, the original pagination has been maintained wherever possible.

Each article has been given a Roman number in order of appearance, as listed in the Contents. This number is repeated on each page and quoted in the index entries.

Dutch trade and shipping have long been recognized as the source of the short period of prominence which those seven provinces enjoyed in European international politics in the seventeenth century. What made the success even more dramatic were the simultaneous political and economic difficulties of virtually all other European states. Dutch practices were looked on at the time as the ultimate key to prosperity and power. Much contemporary discussion turned on how to emulate the Dutch while destroying the basis for their power and prosperity. The critical role of exchange between East and West in the shifting balance of power in Renaissance northern Europe was the starting point for the entire programme of study covered in this volume. The search for answers led to a concern for the sources of Dutch success. Questions of how the Dutch did it date from the seventeenth century as do some of the answers proposed in the writing which follows in this book.

The capital goods of Dutch shipping, the ships, were known to be better, at least in business terms, than those of their competitors. Why that was so, how that was so and what caused that to be so led to an examination of a range of aspects of the Dutch shipbuilding industry. The general study in the book,

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