The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography

Contents

Contents Introduction: The Sea Is the Land’s Edge Also Peter N. Miller 1 one Two Men in a Boat: The Braudel-Goitein “Correspondence” and the Beginning of Thalassography Peter N. Miller 27 two Atlantic and Caribbean Perspectives: Analyzing a Hybrid and Entangled World Wim Klooster 60 three Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories Nicholas Purcell 84 four The East Asian “Mediterranean”: A Medium of Flourishing Exchange Relations and Interaction in the East Asian World Angela Schottenhammer 109 five Metaphorical Perspectives of the Sea and the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898 James Francis Warren 145 six Connecting Maritime and Continental History: The Black Sea Region at the Time of the Mongol Empire Nicola Di Cosmo 174 seven An Ocean of Islands: Islands, Insularity, and Historiography of the Indian Ocean Roxani Margariti 198 eight Skerries, Haffs, and Icefloes: Small Seas and Maritime Histories David Kirby 230 nine The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Peiresc Peter N. Miller 251 Afterthoughts: Histories in Bottles Sanjay Subrahmanyam 277 Contributors 285 Index 289 ...