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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9780511921780

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How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.

Reviews

‘This witty, allusive and important study illuminates how ‘the discipline of the sea’ made England an island nation and Britain an imperial power. By showing how British history, politics and identity were formed through and against not only other islands but also Asia and continental Europe, Scott brings postcolonial, transnational and revisionist perspectives into productive proximity to produce a new and tantalizing reading of the languages of power.’

Kathleen Wilson - State University of New York, Stony Brook

‘By turns rigorous, radical, and rhapsodic, When the Waves Ruled Britannia demonstrates how nautical experience from the English Channel to Australasia defined the possibilities of politics itself. Before Britain could build a maritime empire, she had to learn what her captains from Drake to Dampier called ‘the discipline of the sea’. The perilous but tempting ecologies of the oceans demanded that voyagers venture into new realms of skill, practice, and community if they were to make it home alive. Jonathan Scott shows that as they did so, they shaped the culture of an emerging world power.’

Adrian Johns - University of Chicago

'This is a very good book. By turns both analytical and funny, serious and engaging, general and personal, learned and allusively creative, each page reveals another facet of Britain’s long relationship with the surrounding oceans … Jonathan Scott, who has made his name as a historian of seventeenth-century ideas, has now set out to delineate just how the waters flowing through Britons’ imaginations affected how they saw themselves and their state. The result will fascinate students and their professors alike.'

Glen O’Hara Source: Journal of British Studies

'When the Waves Ruled Britannia provides an excellent survey of the ways in which concepts of insularity and of the sea factored into early modern British political thought … a major addition to the study of historical geography and to the history of political ideas, and it also represents a significant step forward in historicizing questions of English and British identity in the early modern period.'

Tristan Stein Source: H-Net Reviews

'So much nonsense has been written about British insularity that Jonathan Scott’s book comes as a welcome antidote … He brings to his study a wealth of knowledge about the literature of the seas, exploration and travel accounts, cartography, geography, early marine science, sea fictions, and even the art of seascape … a very welcome addition to a growing British historiography that is less landlocked and parochial and much more relevant to this global era.'

John R. Gillis Source: American Historical Review

'In this book Scott highlights the geographical component of early modern British political thought and the geographical articulation of its political identity.'

Matthew Neufeld Source: Canadian Journal of History

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Manuscripts
Alexander turnbull library (atl), wellington
Letters and Journals 1840–60
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MS 2142 Character of Charles II by the Marquess of Normanby
MS 2184, ‘April 21 1697 Mr Flamsteed's Acct of ye Beginning, Progress + present State … in ye Doctrine + Practice of Navigation’
MS 2349 John Cox his Travils over the Land into the South Seas
MS 2581 Pepys' Navy White Book
MS 2888 ‘The political grounds and maxims of the Republic of Holland and West Friesland’, translation by Toby Bonnell of Aanwysing der heilsam politike Gronden en Maximen van de Republicke van Holland en West-Vriesland (Leiden and Rotterdam, 1669)
Manuscript essays
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Gibson, Richard, ‘Discourse on our Naval Conduct’, NMM REC/6 Item 16. Another two copies in BL Add MS 11602 ff. 37–41 and 43–9. Published as Reflections On Our Naval Strength, in J. Knox Laughton (ed.), The Naval Miscellany, vol. II (London, 1912) pp. 149–68.
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Gibson, Richard, ‘The Dutch Action at Chatham Examined’, BL Add MS 11684 ff. 31–3.
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Gibson, Richard, ‘Gibson to Admiral Russell against Victualling the Royall Navy by Contract’, BL Sloane MS 2572 ff. 88–91. Another version possibly in Gibson's hand dated London 27 February 1693/4 BL Add MS 11684 ff. 59–62.
Gibson, Richard, ‘Gibson to Pepys about Victualling 23 August 1686’, BL Add MS 11684 ff. 65–73.
Gibson, Richard, ‘Heads of a Discourse between an English and Dutch Sea Captain how ye English came to Beate the Dutch at Sea in Anno 1652 + 1653’, BL Add MS 11602 ff. 90–1. Another version possibly in Gibson's hand: ‘A Discourse then between an English Sea-Captaine and a Dutch-Skipper how the English came to Beate the Dutch at Sea’, April 1654 BL Add MS 11684 ff. 30–2. The latter published in S. R. Gardiner and C. T. Atkinson (ed.), Letters and Papers Relating to the First Dutch War, 1652–4 (2 vols., London, 1899) vol. I pp. 31–3.
Gibson, Richard, ‘Memorials for the King About the Fleet, Flagg-Officers, Admiralty, Navy-Bord, Victualling, and Sick and Wounded Comissioners. Wrot at the Command of Sr John Trenchard the Secretary of State; by Richard Gibson’, London 5 October 1693 BL Add MS 11684 ff. 51–7.
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