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Cast Off Bibliography
Here’s a selected bibliography—a small smackerel, as Winnie-the-Pooh would say—of sources I used for Cast Off. Some of the books, articles, and websites I used or liked the most. My full Cast Off research file has more than 400 entries.
Ashenburg, Katherin, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, North Point Press, 2007
Beck, Horace, Folklore and the Sea, Wesleyan University Press, 1973
Brandt, Anthony, The Tragic History of the Sea: Shipwrecks from the Bible to Titanic, National Geographic Society, 2006
Jaap R. Bruijn, “The Dutch East India Company as Shipowner, 1602-1796,” The American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History, Volume XLVII, No. 4, Fall 1987
Jaap R. Bruijn and Els van Eyck van Helslinga, “Mutiny: Rebellion on the Ships of the Dutch East India Company,” The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Associated of Maritime History, Vol. 4, Number 1. April 1982
Bryson, Bill, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, 2010
Cordingly, David, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, 1996
Druett, Joan, Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail, 2000
Duby, Georges; Perrot, Michelle; Davis, Natalie Zemon; Farge, Arlette; Goldhammer, Arthur, A History of
Women: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, 1995
Exquemelin, Alexander O., The Buccaneers of America, 1678
Gentleman, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew, 1699
Erik Goebel, “Danes in the Service of the Dutch East India Company in the Seventeenth Century,” International Journal of Maritime History, Vol XVI, No. 1, June 2004
King, Dean; Hattendorf, John, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales, 1997
Kleijn, K., The Canals of Amsterdam: 400 Years of Building, Living and Working, 2013
Miller, Russell, The East Indiamen, Time-Life Books, 1980
Rose, Peter, The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World, 1989
Rybczynski, Witold, Home, 1987
Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, Random House, 1987
Sleigh, Dan, Jan Compagnie: The World of the Dutch East India Company, 1980
Smith, John, A Sea Grammar, Vols I & II, 1580-1631
Taylor, Jean Gelman, The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Wear, Andrew, Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine: 1550-1680
Woodall, John, Surgeon’s Mate, 1639
Zumthor, Paul, Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland, 1994
Cannons and Gunpowder
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/cannon.htm
Common Women’s Clothing in the Early to Mid-17th century | Reconstructing History
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/articles/17th-century-articles/common-womens-clothing-in-the-early-to-mid-17th-century.html
Dutch Costumes of the 17th Century
http://shpect.org/index.php/costumeanatomy/204-dutch-costumes-17th-century
Dutch East India Company, Trade Network, 18th Century
http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch2en/conc2en/map_VOC_Trade_Network.html
The Dutch East India Company’s Shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795
http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/index_html_en
Layout of a C17th East Indiaman
http://maritimeasia.ws/maritimelanka/topics/hullspace.html
Keelhauling
http://holyspeculation.blogspot.com/2010/10/on-gruesome-art-of-keelhauling.html
Names of Ships in the VOC between 1595 and 1650 by Sara L. Uckelman
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/other/vocships.html
Privateer & Pirate Clothing – Hats
http://bbprivateer.ca/?q=node/1
Vermeer’s Palette
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/palette/palette_vermeer’_palette.html