Contents

Introduction. Making Maritime History Global

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Lauren Benton

Part I. Currents

Chapter 1. Why Did Anyone Go to Sea? Structures of Maritime Enlistment from Family Traditions to Violent Coercion

Carla Rahn Phillips

Chapter 2. Between the Company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over Deerskins

Adam Clulow and Xing Hang

Chapter 3. "The Law Is the Lord of the Sea": Maritime Law as Global Maritime History

Matthew Taylor Raffety

Part II. Dispatches

Chapter 4. Reading Cargoes: Letters and the Problem of Nationality in the Age of Privateering

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

Chapter 5. Sailors, States, and the Creation of Nautical Knowledge

Margaret Schotte

Chapter 6. Indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production

David Igler

Part III. Thresholds

Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in Colonial Borderlands

Jeppe Mulich

Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the Water's Edge: Japan's Opening as Coastal Encounter

Catherine Phipps

Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: A Global Survey of Women in Premodern and Early Modern Fisheries

Lisa Norling

Afterword. Land-Sea Regimes in World History

Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

Notes

Index

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments