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The sea : thalassography and historiography / Peter N. Miller, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oceanography--History.
- Oceanography.
- Seas--History.
- Seas.
- Seas--Historiography.
- Seas--Social aspects--History.
- Ocean and civilization--History.
- Ocean and civilization.
- World history.
- Material culture--History.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029013
- 0472029010
- OCLC:
- 843880834
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