The Sea : Thalassography and Historiography /

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This book brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed - and will change - the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Miller, Peter N., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kanada > Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Meereskunde
World history.
Seas.
Oceanography.
Ocean and civilization.
Material culture.
HISTORY > General.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Oceanography.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Oceans & Seas.
Culture materielle > Histoire.
Histoire universelle.
Mer et civilisation > Histoire.
Mers > Aspect social > Histoire.
Mers > Historiographie.
Mers > Histoire.
Oceanographie > Histoire.
Material culture > History.
Ocean and civilization > History.
Seas > Social aspects > History.
Seas > Historiography.
Seas > History.
Oceanography > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The sea is the land's edge also / Peter N. Miller
  • Two men in a boat : the Braudel-Goitein "correspondence" and the beginning of thalassography / Peter N. Miller
  • Atlantic and Caribbean perspectives : analyzing a hybrid and entangled world / Wim Klooster
  • Tide, beach, and backwash : the place of maritime histories / Nicholas Purcell
  • The East Asian "Mediterranean" : a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world / Angela Schottenhammer
  • Metaphorical perspectives of the sea and the Sulu zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren
  • Connecting maritime and continental history : the Black Sea region at the time of the Mongol empire / Nicola di Cosmo
  • An ocean of islands : islands, insularity, and historiography of the Indian Ocean / Roxani Margariti
  • Skerries, haffs, and icefloes : small seas and maritime histories / David Kirby
  • The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Peiresc / Peter N. Miller
  • Afterthoughts : Histories in bottles / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

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