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Sea Changes : Historicizing the Ocean.
The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of Indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Sea Changes
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Sea Is History
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea
- Polyglot Time: Polyglot Space
- Encompassing Oceania
- The Theater of Reenactment
- Observing the Unobservable
- Ocean
- Civilizing the Sea
- Double-Visioned History
- Way-Finding
- Looming
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach
- Divested of Command
- The Moment of Discovery
- Opposite Camps
- Breeches of Etiquette
- Seeing through Clothes
- "A Proper Sample"
- "A Genteel Dressing"
- Notes
- Chapter 3: The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture
- Introduction: Space and Time
- Commodities and the Search for Labor
- Lanun: A Terrifying Presence
- Colonialism's Pirates
- Notes
- Chapter 4: Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano
- I
- II
- III
- Notes
- Chapter 6: The Red Atlantic
- or, "A Terrible Blast Swept Over the Heaving Sea"
- Notes
- Chapter 7: Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic
- Chartless Voyages
- The Grandeur of Egypt
- Hybrid Geographies
- Protean Ships
- Notes
- Chapter 8: "At Sea-Coloured Passenger"
- I
- II
- III
- Notes
- Chapter 9: Slavery, Insurance, and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic
- In Transit: Insuring Slaves
- Maritime Cannibalism, or Why Eating People Is Wrong
- Notes
- Chapter 10: Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.