The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography Contributor(s): Miller, Peter N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0472118676 ISBN-13: 9780472118670 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $74.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography |
Dewey: 551.46 |
LCCN: 2012047391 |
Series: Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 312 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography---the study of the world made by individuals embedded in networks of motion. As Peter N. Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. The Sea focuses not on questions of discipline and professionalization as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organizing, of histories of the sea. |