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The sea : thalassography and historiography /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.