Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (... more Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren WagarAlfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by William H. McneillEdwin G. Pulleyblank. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, Variorum, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. $105.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicola Di CosmoSanjay Subrahmanyam. Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Chandra R. De SilvaSusan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter EdburyThomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 245. 860.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan ShepardHaim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Pp. xv, 591. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoH. G. Koenigsberger. Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 381. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine KooiMary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward FurgolAlastair Hamilton. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age. London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 134. £60.00. 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HillPatrick Griffin. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 244. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by K. David MilobarThomas Philipp. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 299. $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by DINA Rizk KhouryDon H. Doyle. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 130. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Enrico Dal LagoCharles John Fedorak. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 268. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. CooksonDáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds. Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts, and Consequences of the Act of Union. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. 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This article discusses the oldest case (thus far discovered) of an Admiralty Court in session in ... more This article discusses the oldest case (thus far discovered) of an Admiralty Court in session in the British colonies in America. It concerns a ship from the German town of Stade in Swedish controlled Bremen.
Records of Swedish interaction with the British colonies in North America in the later seventeenth century are quite spartan when compared to other trading nations who operated around them. However, in 1672 a Swedish ship, the Burgh of Stade, fell foul of the English Navigation Acts and was tried at a Court of Admiralty in Maryland.2 This event has been overlooked by both scholars of maritime history in the Americas and Swedish historians due to the fact that the documents themselves have been preserved in a file reserved for Swedish shipping taken as prize by the English during the third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674). Thus the name of the ship the Burgh of Stade is missing from the most complete work on the subject of the Maryland ‘Courts of Admiralty’ published in 1995.3 The question of what the ship was doing in British colonial waters is not directly answered by the documents, though trade in an unusual commodity is at the heart of the matter. The Burgh carried a cargo of 50,000 bricks. By c.1674 brick buildings were unusual in Maryland, with the chapel in the capital being one of the few examples.4 The opportunity to rectify this by bringing in a consignment of bricks was taken by some ‘opportunistic’ Swedish citizens, though their action eventually cost them their ship and the profits from their consignment.
Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (... more Geoffrey Blainey. A Short History of the World. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002. Pp. xi, 464. 827.50 (US). Reviewed by W. Warren WagarAlfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $26.00 (US). Reviewed by William H. McneillEdwin G. Pulleyblank. Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, Variorum, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. $105.95 (US). Reviewed by Nicola Di CosmoSanjay Subrahmanyam. Penumbral Visions: Making Polities in Early Modern South India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 295. $49.50 (US). Reviewed by Chandra R. De SilvaSusan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 215. $18.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by Peter EdburyThomas T. Allsen. Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 245. 860.00 (US). Reviewed by Jonathan ShepardHaim Beinart. The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2002. Pp. xv, 591. $85.00 (US). Reviewed by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoH. G. Koenigsberger. Monarchies, States Generals, and Parliaments: The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix, 381. $75.00 (US). Reviewed by Christine KooiMary Elizabeth Ailes. Military Migration and State Formation: The British Military Community in Seventeenth-Century Sweden. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. $50.00 (US). Reviewed by Edward FurgolAlastair Hamilton. Arab Culture and Ottoman Magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age. London and Oxford: The Arcadian Library in association with Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 134. £60.00. Reviewed by Deborah HowardHARRY G. GELBER. Nations out of Empires: European Nationalism and the Transformation of Asia. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix, 263. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Fred HallidayLeah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, eds. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 446. $40.00 (US). Reviewed by John CraigJeremy Black. European International Relations, 1648–1815. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. $22.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by Jennifer MoriMlada Bukovansky. Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 255. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by Norman HampsonPatricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 299. $29.95 (US). Reviewed by Sarah H. HillPatrick Griffin. The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689–1764. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 244. $19.95 (US), paper. Reviewed by K. David MilobarThomas Philipp. Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 299. $17.50 (US), paper. Reviewed by DINA Rizk KhouryDon H. Doyle. Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 130. $24.95 (US). Reviewed by Enrico Dal LagoCharles John Fedorak. Henry Addington, Prime Minister, 1801–1804: Peace, War, and Parliamentary Politics. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 268. $44.95 (US). Reviewed by J. E. CooksonDáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan, eds. Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts, and Consequences of the Act of Union. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. 270. $45.00 (US). Reviewed by Jim SmythKlaus Gallo. Great Britain and Argentina: From Invasion to Recognition, 1806-26. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. vi, 195. $55.00 (US). Reviewed by Andrew S. ThompsonRory Muir. Salamanca 1812. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 322. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by Richard Thorburn HerzogWilliam Barr, ed. and annotated. From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 330. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by William R. MorrisonTimothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, eds. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 444. $22.95 (US) paper. Reviewed by David ClaytonJohn Mason Hart. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp.xi, 677. $39.95 (US). Reviewed by Thomas SchoonoverJeremy Black. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xii,…
This article discusses the oldest case (thus far discovered) of an Admiralty Court in session in ... more This article discusses the oldest case (thus far discovered) of an Admiralty Court in session in the British colonies in America. It concerns a ship from the German town of Stade in Swedish controlled Bremen.
Records of Swedish interaction with the British colonies in North America in the later seventeenth century are quite spartan when compared to other trading nations who operated around them. However, in 1672 a Swedish ship, the Burgh of Stade, fell foul of the English Navigation Acts and was tried at a Court of Admiralty in Maryland.2 This event has been overlooked by both scholars of maritime history in the Americas and Swedish historians due to the fact that the documents themselves have been preserved in a file reserved for Swedish shipping taken as prize by the English during the third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674). Thus the name of the ship the Burgh of Stade is missing from the most complete work on the subject of the Maryland ‘Courts of Admiralty’ published in 1995.3 The question of what the ship was doing in British colonial waters is not directly answered by the documents, though trade in an unusual commodity is at the heart of the matter. The Burgh carried a cargo of 50,000 bricks. By c.1674 brick buildings were unusual in Maryland, with the chapel in the capital being one of the few examples.4 The opportunity to rectify this by bringing in a consignment of bricks was taken by some ‘opportunistic’ Swedish citizens, though their action eventually cost them their ship and the profits from their consignment.
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Records of Swedish interaction with the British colonies in North America in the later seventeenth century are quite spartan when compared to other trading nations who operated around them. However, in 1672 a Swedish ship, the Burgh of Stade, fell foul of the English Navigation Acts and was tried at a Court of Admiralty in Maryland.2 This event has been overlooked by both scholars of maritime history in the Americas and Swedish historians due to the fact that the documents themselves have been preserved in a file reserved for Swedish shipping taken as prize by the English during the third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674). Thus the name of the ship the Burgh of Stade is missing from the most complete work on the subject of the Maryland ‘Courts of Admiralty’ published in 1995.3 The question of what the ship was doing in British colonial waters is not directly answered by the documents, though trade in an unusual commodity is at the heart of the matter. The Burgh carried a cargo of 50,000 bricks. By c.1674 brick buildings were unusual in Maryland, with the chapel in the capital being one of the few examples.4 The opportunity to rectify this by bringing in a consignment of bricks was taken by some ‘opportunistic’ Swedish citizens, though their action eventually cost them their ship and the profits from their consignment.
Records of Swedish interaction with the British colonies in North America in the later seventeenth century are quite spartan when compared to other trading nations who operated around them. However, in 1672 a Swedish ship, the Burgh of Stade, fell foul of the English Navigation Acts and was tried at a Court of Admiralty in Maryland.2 This event has been overlooked by both scholars of maritime history in the Americas and Swedish historians due to the fact that the documents themselves have been preserved in a file reserved for Swedish shipping taken as prize by the English during the third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674). Thus the name of the ship the Burgh of Stade is missing from the most complete work on the subject of the Maryland ‘Courts of Admiralty’ published in 1995.3 The question of what the ship was doing in British colonial waters is not directly answered by the documents, though trade in an unusual commodity is at the heart of the matter. The Burgh carried a cargo of 50,000 bricks. By c.1674 brick buildings were unusual in Maryland, with the chapel in the capital being one of the few examples.4 The opportunity to rectify this by bringing in a consignment of bricks was taken by some ‘opportunistic’ Swedish citizens, though their action eventually cost them their ship and the profits from their consignment.