Table of Contents
Illustrations xi
Maps xv
Acknowledgments xxxiii
A Note on Measures xxxvi
Introduction 3
1 Taking to the Water 11
2 The River and Seas of Ancient Egypt 36
3 Bronze Age Seafaring 57
4 Phoenicians, Greeks, and the Mediterranean 79
5 Carthage, Rome, and the Mediterranean 107
6 Chasing the Monsoons 137
7 Continent and Archipelagoes in the East 167
8 The Christian and Muslim Mediterranean 198
9 Northern Europe Through the Viking Age 229
10 The Silk Road of the Seas 262
11 China Looks Seaward 291
12 The Medieval Mediterranean and Europe 316
13 The Golden Age of Maritime Asia 346
14 The World Encompassed 376
15 The Birth of Global Trade 406
16 State and Sea in the Age of European Expansion 440
17 Northern Europe Ascendant 473
18 "Annihilation of Space and Time" 508
19 Naval Power in Steam and Steel 546
20 The Maritime World Since the 1950s 582
Notes 601
Bibliography 661
Index 707