Asger Norlund Christensen
Maritime Connections Across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period
Maritime Connections Across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period
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This Ph.D. dissertation explores the maritime relationships between the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries, focusing on the seaward provinces of the Netherlands. It reveals that Dutch maritime technology was imported by the Danish king in the early Renaissance, and Dutch master shipbuilders and naval officers influenced the Royal Danish Navy. Ordinary Scandinavian sailors also migrated to the Netherlands and took part in Dutch shipping, learning important maritime skills onboard. This study of maritime labour migration will be of interest to scholars of maritime, migration, and technology history, as well as anyone who enjoys reading about the lives and work of ordinary sailors in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 290 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2021
Publisher: Sidestone Press
In the early Renaissance, Dutch maritime technology was imported by the Danish king, who recruited craftsmen and purchased ships in the Netherlands. The Royal Danish Navy was profoundly influenced by Dutch master shipbuilders and naval officers. However, it was not only maritime experts and mariners who traveled to the North; ordinary Scandinavian sailors also migrated the other way and took part in Dutch shipping to all parts of the world. This labor migration has been known amongst Dutch scholars for some time, but is almost unknown in Scandinavian historical circles.
For the first time, data from the Amsterdam City Archive has made it possible to get closer to the individual sailors, who hailed from the coastal districts of Norway, the Southwest coast of Denmark, and for a lesser part, the West coast of Sweden, and their participation in the Dutch shipping industry has been analyzed. Showing that they learned important maritime skills onboard.
Coming back to Scandinavia, these sailors were the backbone of the navies and merchant fleets of the Scandinavian countries, especially in the eighteenth century.
This study of maritime labor migration will be of interest to scholars of maritime, migration, and technology history, but also for anyone who likes to read about the lives and work of ordinary sailors in the early modern period.
Weight: 636g
Dimension: 256 x 181 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789088909863
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