Seascapes : maritime histories, littoral cultures, and transoceanic exchanges / edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Kären Wigen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bentley, Jerry H., 1949-2012.

Bridenthal, Renate.

Wigen, Kären, 1958-

Series:

Perspectives on the global past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--Congresses.

History, Modern.

Navigation--History--Congresses.

Navigation.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]

Summary:

Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts-some more successful than others-to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.

Contents:

Constructs

1 Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania, 1500-1800 / John R. Gillis 21

2 Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright in the Pacific / Hans Konrad Van Tilburg 38

3 Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral / Jennifer L. Gaynor 53

Empires

4 The Organization of Oceanic Empires: The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period / Carla Rahn Phillip 71

5 The Ottoman "Discovery" of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century / Giancarlo Casale 87

6 Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825 / Eliga H. Gould 105

7 Transgressive Exchange: Circumventing Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Commercial Restrictions, or The Discount of Monte Christi / Alan L. Karras 121

Sociologies

8 "Tavern of the Seas"? The Cape of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Kerry Ward 137

9 That Turbulent Soil: Seafarers, the "Black Atlantic," and Afro-Caribbean Identity / Alan Gregor Cobley 153

10 Race, Migration, and Port-City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire, 1880-1920 / Risa L. Faussette 169

11 South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: c. 1870-1930s / G. Balachandran 186

Transgressors

12 Marking Water: Piracy and Property in the Premodern West / Emily Sohmer Tai 205

13 With the Sea as Their Domain: Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan / Peter D. Shapinsky 221

14 The Pirate and the Gallows: An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance / Marcus Rediker 239.

Notes:

Results of a conference entitled "Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges" held Feb. 2003 at the Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824830274

082483027X

OCLC:

77767233