Maritime Kent through the ages : gateway to the sea /: gateway to the sea. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards, Sheila Sweetinburgh.
• Editors: Bligh, Stuart; Edwards, Elizabeth; Sweetinburgh, Sheila
• Contents: List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1) Introduction - Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh; Part 1 Topography; 2) Kent's Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or "where the land meets the sea"!) - Chris Young; Part II Defence; 3) Defending the Kent coast - Roman to Anglo-Saxon - Keith Parfitt; 4) The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years' War - Adrian Jobson; 5) To Defend the Coast - Chris Ware; 6) Kent's Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam - Andrew Lambert; Part III Trade and Industry; 7) Trade and Industry during the Roman Period - Elizabeth Blanning; 8) Far-Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent - Andrew Richardson; 9) Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent - Maryanne Kowaleski; 10) The Early Modern Period 1500-1700: Trade and Industry - Jane Andrewes; 11) Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700 - David Killingray; Part III Coastal Communities; 12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages - Gillian Draper; 13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent's History, c.1500-1840 - Ben Marsh and David Killingray; 14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent - Sandra Dunster; 15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities - Elizabeth Edwards; Part IV Case Studies; 16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 - Susan Rose; 17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe - Sheila Sweetinburgh; 18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent - Melanie Caiazza; 19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society - Gill Wyatt; 20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 - Claire Bartram; 21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam - Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton; 22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women's Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 - Jo Stanley; 23) Afterword - Margarette Lincoln; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Martlesham : The Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 942.23; Communities -- England -- Kent -- History; Navigation -- England -- Kent -- History; Merchant marine -- England -- Kent -- History; Communities; Geography; Merchant marine; Navigation; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Kent (England) -- History; Kent (England) -- Geography; England -- Kent; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800103054; 1800103050
• Related ISBNs: 9781783276257; 1783276258
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.