Introduction : Making maritime history global / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Lauren Benton
Chapter 1. Why did anyone go to sea? Structures of maritime enlistment from family traditions to violent coercion / Carla Rahn Phillips
Chapter 2. Between the company and Koxinga : territorial waters, trade, and war over deerskins / Adam Clulow and Xing Hang
Chapter 3. "The law Is the lord of the sea" : maritime law as global maritime history / Matthew Taylor Raffery
Chater. 4. Reading cargoes : letters and the problem of nationality in the age of privateering / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Chapter 5. Sailors, states, and the creation of nautical knowledge / Margaret Schotte
Chapter 6. Indigenous maritime travelers and knowledge production / David Igler
Chapter 7. Maritime marronage in colonial borderlands / Jeppe Mulich
Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the water's edge : Japan's opening as coastal encounter / Catherine Phipps
Chapter 9. Working women who got wet : a global survey of women in premodern and early modern fisheries / Lisa Norling
Afterword : Land-sea regimes in world history / Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.