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The Red Sea : In Search of Lost Space /
"The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this bod...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : history at sea : space and the other
- The place in the middle : a geohistory of the Red Sea
- Thalassology alla turca : six theses on the philosophy of history
- Self-portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, 20th of July 1777
- The scientific invention of the Red Sea
- Thalassomania : modernity and the sea
- Conclusion : rigging the historian's craft : for an epistemology of composition.