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- The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histor
summary
The Sea 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 Peter N. Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. The Sea 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.
Table of Contents
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- Series Editor’s Preface
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Afterthoughts: Histories in Bottles
- pp. 277-284
- Contributors
- pp. 285-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472029013
Related ISBN(s)
9780472118670
MARC Record
OCLC
843880834
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013