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Fluid frontiers : new currents in marine environmental history /
A collection of essays on the history, meaning and materiality of the marine environment.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
The White Horse Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Introduction Fluid Frontiers: New Currents in Marine Environmental History; Amphibious History; Tridimensional History; Sea as History; Knowing the Sea in New Ways; Necessity of Margins; Discovering the Sea; Bibiliography ; I. REIMAGINING OCEANS; The Swamp: Waterland of the Semi-Wild; Introduction; Losing the swamp; Using the Swamp; Fashioning the semi-wild; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filling Boston Commons: Law, Culture, and Ecology in a Seventeenth-Century Estuary; English Ownership on Land and Sea; The Law of the Sea; Conclusion; Bibliography.
- Escaping the Maritime Revival ViewpointFishing's Image; Whaling's Image; Discovering the Shore; Seafood's Status or Seafood as Status?; Conclusions; Bibliography; Beneath the Surface of the Pacific Waters: John Steinbeck's (Deep) Ecological Explorations; Introduction; Ecological Foundations; Deep Ecological Meditations; Final Frontier and New Horizons ; Conclusion ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; II. HISTORICISING SEAS AND MARINE LIFE; To the Islands: Ecological Imperialism on the North-West Australian Coast; Bibliography; Old Waves, New Waves: Changing Objects in Physical Oceanography.
- Waves, ThenWaves, Now; Bibliography; Fishing Communities in Eighteenth-Century Iceland
- An Interdisciplinary Case Study from Vestfirðir ; Introduction; The Eighteenth Century Sites; Explanations Behind Emergence; A Brief Environmental and Social History; Brief Economic Overview; Eighteenth Century Iceland in a Modern Global Context ; Bibliography; Modernity and Marine Environmental History: Cultural Influences on the Mechanisation of Georges Bank Fisheries, 1905-1912; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Producing Fishing Territory and Mapping Ghosts; Introduction; Counting Fish; Enclosure; Bioeconomic Management.
- Loss and LongingMapping Ghosts; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; III. SCIENCE AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE; From Cook to Cousteau: The Many Lives of Coral Reefs; Introduction; Reefs as the product of coral growth; The Beneficent Power of Corals; Malevolent Corals; Coral Reefs Disenchanted; Coral reefs since 1950; Conclusion; Bibliography; The Arctic Ocean as an Outdoor-Laboratory: How the First International Polar Year Expanded the Visual Perception of the Arctic; Arctic visual traditions; Scientific traditions and the emergence of the International Polar Year.
- Transforming the Arctic in an Outdoor-laboratoryBIBLIOGRAPHY; The Sea seen as a Tri-Dimensional Social Space: The Case of the Gulf of St Lawrence; Introduction: Global Nature and Complexity of a Tri-dimensional Space; Pirates, Corsairs and Military Ships in the Gulf of St Lawrence; The Long Process of Exclusion of European Flotillas from the Gulf.; The Intra-Canadian Conflicts of Appropriation in the Gulf of St Lawrence; Conclusion; Bibliography; From Oceans through Islands to Mountains: Creating the 'Correspondence Principle'; Introduction: Ocean Highways.