Richard J Blakemore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1531187 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard J Blakemore |
| PRENOMES | Richard J |
| SOBRENOME | Blakemore |
| ASSINATURA | BLAKEMORE R J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0281-6826 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The English and French Navies, 1500–1650
Mutiny on Trial
This article offers a new interpretation of mutiny, and of the ways in which this concept was defined and implemented in maritime law during the seventeenth century. It particularly focuses on British seafarers and the evidence surviving in the papers of the English High Court of Admiralty, placed in a comparative perspective with reference to other states' legal provision. Scholars of maritime social history have been particularly preoccupied wi…
Englishmen at Sea
Hubbard’s book presents a new and richly researched perspective on the social history of English seafarers at a crucial moment in the development of England’s maritime empire. Drawing principally on state papers, printed sources, and the detailed depositions preserved in the records of the High Court of Admiralty, Hubbard explores the experience of life at sea and the role that mariners played in the development of imperial and commercial network…
Robert C. Ritchie. The Lure of the Beach
In The Lure of the Beach, Robert C. Ritchie explores the development of beach resorts, showing how something that “started out as a modest number of individuals seeking therapeutic relief in the ocean ... has morphed into a staggering phenomenon” that now dominates global culture and leisure (224). He traces the massive rise of resorts in size and popularity as they changed in character and eventually proliferated around the world. Yet Ritchie al…
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy
Journal Article England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy Get access England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 410. £30). Richard Blakemore Richard Blakemore University of Reading, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 589, December 2022, Pages 1836–1838, https://d…
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight
Historians have generally argued that between the medieval period and the eighteenth century seafarers transformed from collaborative adventurers with a share in their vessel to the first international wage-earning proletariat. This interpretation has drawn upon relatively limited statistical analysis of mariners' wages, and underestimates the variety of seafarers' remuneration and economic activities besides wages themselves. This article undert…
The Changing Fortunes of Atlantic History
Entrepreneurs at sea
Historians of globalization have considered how the early phases of globalization brought about changes in localized legal systems. But rather than pursuing the conventional approach of identifying ways in which the law developed to function on a more global scale, we adopt a localized perspective to examine how a landscape of different legal systems offered myriad opportunities in which the entrepreneurial activities of many actors could flouris…
The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575â 1729
The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575–1729
The working lives of early modern seafarers were embedded in a thick web of legal regulation, often across multiple jurisdictions, and at the same time their activities contributed to the shape and development of that framework. Contracts and wage agreements, recognised rights to treatment, protection, sustenance and remuneration, and the policies of governments all structured the labouring conditions of sailors, and the words and actions of seaf…
British pirates and society, 1680–1730
This book examines how, around the turn of the eighteenth century, piracy ‘acted as a kind of prism that illuminated aspects of contemporary life and society’ (2), because, as Margarette Lincoln ob
Introduction
Atlantic history has become an influential scholarly paradigm over the past few decades, especially for historians of the early modern period. Its many advocates claim that the idea of an “Atlantic world” enables us to break down boundaries, connecting what might otherwise be seen as disparate regions or isolated historical subjects, and encouraging the study of interactions around the ocean beyond the confines of a single nation or empire.1 Whil…
West Africa in the British Atlantic
The importance of Africa and African agency in the formation of the Atlantic world is now widely acknowledged by historians, but Africa has drawn less attention than other regions in analyses of the British Atlantic. Drawing upon the nascent methodology of global microhistory, this article contributes to a scholarly rebalancing by examining two maritime lawsuits from the 1640s concerning British voyages to Senegambia and Sierra Leone, both of whi…
Women and English Piracy, 1540–1720
In his latest book, John Appleby takes his previous work on early modern English piracy and privateering in a new direction in two ways: by considering an impressively long period, stretching from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (upon which he has previously focused) to the ‘golden age’ of piracy in the early eighteenth century; and by placing at the centre of his study pirates’ relationships with women, both within England and in c…
Law, Labour and Empire
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technol
Thinking outside the gundeck
Maritime history seems to be suffering an identity crisis, rising in popularity but unsure of its place within historical scholarship and divided in approach. Seafarers, as a consequence, have remained marginal within mainstream history. This article argues that only by integrating the study of maritime topics into wider historical debates can maritime history overcome these doubts, taking as a case study the role of seafarers and the navy in Bri…
The Politics of Piracy in the British Atlantic, c. 1640–1649
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The social history of English seamen, 1485–1649
As Cheryl Fury writes in her introduction, ‘We are sorely in need of a work which ... provides an overview of the state of our knowledge on English seafarers during the early modern period’ (4). That
British Imperial Expansion and the Transformation of Violence at Sea, 1600–1850
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Voyage to Jamestown
Navigating culture
This research note explores the possibility of approaching navigational instruments not as evidence of the progress of scientific knowledge, but of the experiences of early modern seafarers. These instruments formed an important part of the material culture of seafaring, existing as physical elements of the mental framework through which mariners understood both the natural and the human world around them. Some of these cultural contexts can be r…
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight
Historians have generally argued that between the medieval period and the eighteenth century seafarers transformed from collaborative adventurers with a share in their vessel to the first international wage-earning proletariat. This interpretation has drawn upon relatively limited statistical analysis of mariners' wages, and underestimates the variety of seafarers' remuneration and economic activities besides wages themselves. This article undert…
Entrepreneurs at sea
Historians of globalization have considered how the early phases of globalization brought about changes in localized legal systems. But rather than pursuing the conventional approach of identifying ways in which the law developed to function on a more global scale, we adopt a localized perspective to examine how a landscape of different legal systems offered myriad opportunities in which the entrepreneurial activities of many actors could flouris…
Law, Labour and Empire
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technol
The Politics of Piracy in the British Atlantic, c. 1640–1649
not available
Navigating culture
This research note explores the possibility of approaching navigational instruments not as evidence of the progress of scientific knowledge, but of the experiences of early modern seafarers. These instruments formed an important part of the material culture of seafaring, existing as physical elements of the mental framework through which mariners understood both the natural and the human world around them. Some of these cultural contexts can be r…
The Changing Fortunes of Atlantic History
The social history of English seamen, 1485–1649
As Cheryl Fury writes in her introduction, ‘We are sorely in need of a work which ... provides an overview of the state of our knowledge on English seafarers during the early modern period’ (4). That
Voyage to Jamestown
Navigating culture
This research note explores the possibility of approaching navigational instruments not as evidence of the progress of scientific knowledge, but of the experiences of early modern seafarers. These instruments formed an important part of the material culture of seafaring, existing as physical elements of the mental framework through which mariners understood both the natural and the human world around them. Some of these cultural contexts can be r…
The Politics of Piracy in the British Atlantic, c. 1640–1649
not available
The social history of English seamen, 1485–1649
As Cheryl Fury writes in her introduction, ‘We are sorely in need of a work which ... provides an overview of the state of our knowledge on English seafarers during the early modern period’ (4). That
British Imperial Expansion and the Transformation of Violence at Sea, 1600–1850
not available
Thinking outside the gundeck
Maritime history seems to be suffering an identity crisis, rising in popularity but unsure of its place within historical scholarship and divided in approach. Seafarers, as a consequence, have remained marginal within mainstream history. This article argues that only by integrating the study of maritime topics into wider historical debates can maritime history overcome these doubts, taking as a case study the role of seafarers and the navy in Bri…
The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575â 1729
The Legal World of English Sailors, c. 1575–1729
The working lives of early modern seafarers were embedded in a thick web of legal regulation, often across multiple jurisdictions, and at the same time their activities contributed to the shape and development of that framework. Contracts and wage agreements, recognised rights to treatment, protection, sustenance and remuneration, and the policies of governments all structured the labouring conditions of sailors, and the words and actions of seaf…
British pirates and society, 1680–1730
This book examines how, around the turn of the eighteenth century, piracy ‘acted as a kind of prism that illuminated aspects of contemporary life and society’ (2), because, as Margarette Lincoln ob
Introduction
Atlantic history has become an influential scholarly paradigm over the past few decades, especially for historians of the early modern period. Its many advocates claim that the idea of an “Atlantic world” enables us to break down boundaries, connecting what might otherwise be seen as disparate regions or isolated historical subjects, and encouraging the study of interactions around the ocean beyond the confines of a single nation or empire.1 Whil…
West Africa in the British Atlantic
The importance of Africa and African agency in the formation of the Atlantic world is now widely acknowledged by historians, but Africa has drawn less attention than other regions in analyses of the British Atlantic. Drawing upon the nascent methodology of global microhistory, this article contributes to a scholarly rebalancing by examining two maritime lawsuits from the 1640s concerning British voyages to Senegambia and Sierra Leone, both of whi…
Women and English Piracy, 1540–1720
In his latest book, John Appleby takes his previous work on early modern English piracy and privateering in a new direction in two ways: by considering an impressively long period, stretching from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (upon which he has previously focused) to the ‘golden age’ of piracy in the early eighteenth century; and by placing at the centre of his study pirates’ relationships with women, both within England and in c…
Law, Labour and Empire
Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technol
The Changing Fortunes of Atlantic History
Entrepreneurs at sea
Historians of globalization have considered how the early phases of globalization brought about changes in localized legal systems. But rather than pursuing the conventional approach of identifying ways in which the law developed to function on a more global scale, we adopt a localized perspective to examine how a landscape of different legal systems offered myriad opportunities in which the entrepreneurial activities of many actors could flouris…
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight
Historians have generally argued that between the medieval period and the eighteenth century seafarers transformed from collaborative adventurers with a share in their vessel to the first international wage-earning proletariat. This interpretation has drawn upon relatively limited statistical analysis of mariners' wages, and underestimates the variety of seafarers' remuneration and economic activities besides wages themselves. This article undert…
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy
Journal Article England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy Get access England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles, by David Cressy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp. 410. £30). Richard Blakemore Richard Blakemore University of Reading, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 137, Issue 589, December 2022, Pages 1836–1838, https://d…
Robert C. Ritchie. The Lure of the Beach
In The Lure of the Beach, Robert C. Ritchie explores the development of beach resorts, showing how something that “started out as a modest number of individuals seeking therapeutic relief in the ocean ... has morphed into a staggering phenomenon” that now dominates global culture and leisure (224). He traces the massive rise of resorts in size and popularity as they changed in character and eventually proliferated around the world. Yet Ritchie al…
Mutiny on Trial
This article offers a new interpretation of mutiny, and of the ways in which this concept was defined and implemented in maritime law during the seventeenth century. It particularly focuses on British seafarers and the evidence surviving in the papers of the English High Court of Admiralty, placed in a comparative perspective with reference to other states' legal provision. Scholars of maritime social history have been particularly preoccupied wi…
Englishmen at Sea
Hubbard’s book presents a new and richly researched perspective on the social history of English seafarers at a crucial moment in the development of England’s maritime empire. Drawing principally on state papers, printed sources, and the detailed depositions preserved in the records of the High Court of Admiralty, Hubbard explores the experience of life at sea and the role that mariners played in the development of imperial and commercial network…
The English and French Navies, 1500–1650
History (19 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · History (14 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras)