Foreword / James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith
Introduction : (maritime) history : salting the discourse / Daniel Finamore
1. Maritime history and world history / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
2. Seaborne exploration in the ancient world / Lionel Casson
3. Maritime exploration in the Middle Ages / William D. Phillips, Jr.
4. Exploring from early modern to modern times / Carla Rahn Phillips
5. Deep frontiers : ocean exploration in the twentieth century / Justin E. Manley and Brendan Foley
6. world-embracing sea : the oceans as highways, 1604-1815 / Olaf U. Janzen
7. role of short-sea, coastal, and riverine traffic in economic development since 1750 / John Armstrong
8. sea as an arena for conflict / John B. Hattendorf
9. Power and domination : Europe and the sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Richard W. Unger
10. Oceanic space and the creation of a global international system, 1450-1800 / Elizabeth Mancke
11. Reimagining the history of twentieth-century navies / Jon Tetsuro Sumida
12. Odysseus's oar : archetypes of voyaging / Robert D. Foulke.
