James Seth

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I'm stumped. I know of a Thomas Lupo, who joined Queen Elizabeth's violin consort in 1588, but I haven't come across a Thomas Gardner. Sorry!

Pirate Imperialism - Yale University Press London This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century   In the middle decades...

Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians
Here:

yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Renee Nicole Good was 37 - A U.S. citizen - and a poet — her wife watched her be murdered and is now a single parent to a 6 year old

This regime has been defined by the endless tragedies it’s caused — we owe it to the victims to fight for the accountability they 💯 percent deserve

There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.

Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...

Just got my author copy of Black Atlantic Worlds! I’m honored and delighted to be a part of this volume.

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

17th-century ballad about the Great Fire of London

Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!

5yo, playing with her Playmobil sets: "the princesses are friends with the pirates"
Me: "ah, that makes them privateers"

It snowed on Christmas Day in Ellensburg! Only the second snow we’ve had in a month.

deck my body in gay ornaments

My former prof at OkState wrote a new book that sounds pretty amazing! 🏴‍☠️⚓️

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English ...

The paperback edition of my book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages (2022), is now available to preorder through Routledge. Copies will ship after Dec 1. ⚓️

We're HIRING: “The Dept of English at UMass Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning fall 2026, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century British literature, with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora." See below for description, and please share the news.

We're still looking for more people to write for this series. If you know somebody who has a really cool process they use for they academic work or a really cool digital humanities project, we'd love to recruit them.

If you have a cool process or project, we'd love for you to write for us too

📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English ...

The paperback edition of my book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages (2022), is now available to preorder through Routledge. Copies will ship after Dec 1. ⚓️

New Special Issue on Black People in New Spain 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

"Negros, mulatos y pardos en Nueva España y sus regiones, Vol. 46 Núm. 183 (2025): (Otoño)

Link:
revistarelaciones.colmich.edu.mx/index.php/re...

What do pirates in Madagascar, a red knitted jumper, the sunken warship Vasa, captivity and colonialism, and the Prize Papers have in common? They're all part of our new online lecture series "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800". Join us weekly on Mondays, 1pm CET, on Zoom #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

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Love that my book has helped Ania Upstill in research for their queer pirate play, Antonio!, which sounds amazing. Definitely need to see it. Twelfth Night’s Antonio was foundational to my love of Shx, so this feels right. Thanks also to @erikagaffney.bsky.social at AUP/Routledge.

@globalmarhist.bsky.social I’d love to! The book is getting a new paperback release this year through Routledge, and I’m currently working on several related projects. My email is sethj@cwu.edu.

My hero! 🥹😍

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by
@routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

Happy to see James Seth's book receive a shout out here -

Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
by Ania Upstill
@folger.edu blog
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The Lives of the Seafaring Middle Class Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English ...

James' book, Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages, is now available in the Routledge warehouse, www.routledge.com/Maritime-Mus...

A pbk edition will be issued soon. It is published in the series Maritime Humanities, Gen'l Eds @clairejowitt.bsky.social & John McAleer.