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A World at Sea - Maritime Practices and Global History (Hardcover)
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A World at Sea - Maritime Practices and Global History (Hardcover)
Series: The Early Modern Americas
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The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of
scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy,
long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history
still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to
editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and
Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between
maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and
to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major
transformations in world history. A World at Sea consists of nine
original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of
practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they
influenced global change. The first section highlights the
regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based
polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The second
section studies documentary practices that aggregated and conveyed
information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the
wide-ranging impact of the explosion of new information about the
maritime world. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea
divide as a threshold of power, the last section features essays
that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and
sociolegal practices spanning land and sea. Maritime history, the
contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of
experimentation, innovation, and disruption that reflected and
sparked wide-ranging global change. Contributors: Lauren Benton,
Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling,
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps,
Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.
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