| Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean Contributor(s): Klein, Bernhard (Editor), Mackenthun, Gesa (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415946514 ISBN-13: 9780415946513 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. "Sea Changes "re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography - History | Historical Geography - History | Military - Naval |
| Dewey: 910.45 |
| LCCN: 2003009693 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 7.8" (0.81 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study. |