Title Maritime Kent through the ages : gateway to the sea / edited by Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards, Sheila Sweetinburgh

Published Martlesham : The Boydell Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) Contents List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1) Introduction -- Stuart Bligh, Elizabeth Edwards and Sheila Sweetinburgh; Part 1 Topography; 2) Kent's Changing Coastal Landscape: A View across Space and Time (or "where the land meets the sea"!) -- Chris Young; Part II Defence; 3) Defending the Kent coast -- Roman to Anglo-Saxon -- Keith Parfitt; 4) The Maritime Defences of Kent from the Loss of Normandy to the Hundred Years' War -- Adrian Jobson; 5) To Defend the Coast -- Chris Ware; 6) Kent's Role in the National Defence Strategy, 1815 to 1865: Dockyards and Harbours in the Age of Steam -- Andrew Lambert; Part III Trade and Industry; 7) Trade and Industry during the Roman Period -- Elizabeth Blanning; 8) Far-Fetched Treasures: The Maritime Networks of the Kingdom of Kent -- Andrew Richardson; 9) Maritime Trade and Industry in Medieval Kent -- Maryanne Kowaleski; 10) The Early Modern Period 1500-1700: Trade and Industry -- Jane Andrewes; 11) Maritime Kent: Trade and Industry since 1700 -- David Killingray; Part III Coastal Communities; 12) Urban Privilege? The Advantages and Enjoyment of Cinque Ports Status in the Middle Ages -- Gillian Draper; 13) Empire, Race, and Diversifying Kent's History, C.1500-1840 -- Ben Marsh and David Killingray; 14) Maritime Communities in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kent -- Sandra Dunster; 15) A Rich Diversity: Modern Kent Coastal Communities -- Elizabeth Edwards; Part IV Case Studies; 16) The Political and Strategic Importance of the Port of Sandwich in the Later Middle Ages c.1340-1500 -- Susan Rose; 17) "Ready for to go to the Sea": maintaining Fishing Families in Late Medieval Hythe -- Sheila Sweetinburgh; 18Saints and Weirs: Late Medieval and Early Modern Communities within a Small Island Landscape in North Kent -- Melanie Caiazza; 19) Early Modern Thanet: An Open Society -- Gill Wyatt; 20) "Dost Thou Know Dover?": Locating Dover in the Early Modern Literary Imagination c.1500-1660 -- Claire Bartram; 21) "fat persons bathing whose appearance was most disgusting": Entertaining Thanet in the Age of Steam -- Carolyn W. de la L Oulton; 22) Rhododendrons and Raids: Dover Naval Women's Daily Life and Emotions in 1918 -- Jo Stanley; 23) Afterword -- Margarette Lincoln; Bibliography; Index Summary A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day Notes Print version record Subject Communities -- England -- Kent -- History Navigation -- England -- Kent -- History Merchant marine -- England -- Kent -- History HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Communities Geography Merchant marine Navigation SUBJECT Kent (England) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95001639 Kent (England) -- Geography Subject England -- Kent Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bligh, Stuart, editor Edwards, Elizabeth, editor Sweetinburgh, Sheila, editor ISBN 9781800103054 1800103050

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