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Vast Expanses - A History of the Oceans (Hardcover)
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Vast Expanses - A History of the Oceans (Hardcover)
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Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history
that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching
back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring
different cultures around the globe. Our ancient connections with
the sea have developed and multiplied with industrialization and
globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions
of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence.
This book argues that knowledge about the ocean - discovered
through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through
the ambitions people have harboured for the sea - has played a
central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless
and opaque place. It has helped people exploit marine resources,
control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt
to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human
activity. An understanding of the ocean has animated and
strengthened connections between people and their seas. To
comprehend this history we must address questions of how, by whom
and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used, in both the
past and the present; through this, we can forge a healthier
relationship with the sea for the future.
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