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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Klein, Bernhard, 1963- (Editor ), Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The sea is history / Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun
  • Deep times, deep spaces : civilizing the sea / Greg Dening
  • Costume changes : passing at sea and on the beach / Vanessa Smith / The global economy and the Sulu Zone : connections, commodities and culture / James Francis Warren
  • Ahab's boat : non-European seamen in Western ships of exploration and commerce / David A. Chappell / Staying afloat : literary shipboard encounters from Columbus to Equiano / Bernhard Klein
  • The Red Atlantic; or, "a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea" / Marcus Rediker
  • Chartless voyages and protean geographies : nineteenth-century American fictions of the Black Atlantic / Gesa Mackenthun
  • "At sea--coloured passenger" / Alasdair Pettinger
  • Slavery, insurance and sacrifice in the Black Atlantic / Tim Armstrong
  • Cast away : the uttermost parts of the earth / Peter Hulme.