This thesis attempts to show the benefits of maritime historians incorporating maritime archaeology into their studies. It does this in two parts. The first part explains the theory and methodology...Show moreThis thesis attempts to show the benefits of maritime historians incorporating maritime archaeology into their studies. It does this in two parts. The first part explains the theory and methodology behind this interdisciplinary approach. The second part utilizes that approach in a case study. This case study is 'how patterns of pillage exploited the Atlantic slave trade during the height of the golden age of piracy'.Show less
The present study attempts to bring together the Mediterranean and the Dutch news communities by examining Mediterranean news in the Dutch press through Abraham Casteleyn's "Haarlemse Courant" in...Show moreThe present study attempts to bring together the Mediterranean and the Dutch news communities by examining Mediterranean news in the Dutch press through Abraham Casteleyn's "Haarlemse Courant" in the decade 1660-1669. Its main argument is that Mediterranean news suited the needs of seventeenth-century news publishers in an exceptional way: "longue durée" Mediterranean realities such as corsair activity along the North African Coast provided a seemingly never-ending flow of news stories which helped to nourish the nascent "periodicity" of the early modern publishing business.Show less
