The sea
Subtitle: thalassography and historiography
By: Peter N. Miller,  editor
Series: The Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780472118670; 9780472029013
Subjects: Historiography; Material culture; Oceanography; Seas; World history; Ocean and civilization; History
Description: The Sea brings 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. -- Publishers website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The sea is the land's edge also / Peter N. Miller; title: Two men in a boat : the Braudel-Goitein "correspondence" and the beginning of thalassography / Peter N. Miller; title: Atlantic and Caribbean perspectives : analyzing a hybrid and entangled world / Wim Klooster; title: Tide, beach, and backwash : the place of maritime histories / Nicholas Purcell; title: The East Asian "Mediterranean" : a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world / Angela Schottenhammer; title: Metaphorical perspectives of the sea and the Sulu zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren; title: Connecting maritime and continental history : the Black Sea region at the time of the Mongol empire / Nicola di Cosmo; title: An ocean of islands : islands, insularity, and historiography of the Indian Ocean / Roxani Margariti; title: Skerries, haffs, and icefloes : small seas and maritime histories / David Kirby; title: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Peiresc / Peter N. Miller; title: Afterthoughts: Histories in bottles / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.