Maritime Kent Through the Ages (EPDF) von Stuart Bligh

A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day.

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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
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