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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 history - writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals - describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography - the study of the world made by individuals embedded in networks of motion. As the editor contends in his introduction, writing about the sea is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. This book focuses not on questions of discipline and professionalization as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organizing, of histories of the sea. -- Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780472029013 |