Maritime history is a vibrant and growing area of historical research. During the early modern period, the sea served as a transport route and a contact zone. It transported goods, people, ideas, plants, animals, and diseases to and from distant parts of the world. It also facilitated the export of violence from Europe to other continents and sometimes became an arena of war. This raises questions about the economic, ecological, political, social, and cultural effects of maritime mobility, networks, and transfers, including conflicts and collisions. This seminar will explore early globalisation from a maritime perspective, with a particular focus on cultural encounters and transcultural entanglements.
Bernhard Klein/Gesa Mackenthun (eds.): Sea changes: historicizing the ocean, New York/London 2004; Peter Burschel/Sünne Juterczenka (eds.): Das Meer. Maritime Welten in der Frühen Neuzeit | The Sea: maritime worlds in the early modern period, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2021.
- Dozent/in: Beate Heß
- Dozent/in: Sünne Juterczenka