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The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography
Peter N. Miller, Editor
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.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Series Editor's Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction: The Sea Is the Land's Edge Also
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ONE Two Men in a Boat: The Braudel-Goitein “Correspondence” and the Beginning of Thalassography
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TWO Atlantic and Caribbean Perspectives: Analyzing a Hybrid and Entangled World
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THREE Tide, Beach, and Backwash: The Place of Maritime Histories
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FOUR The East Asian “Mediterranean”: A Medium of Flourishing Exchange Relations and Interaction in the East Asian World
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FIVE Metaphorical Perspectives of the Sea and the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898
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SIX Connecting Maritime and Continental History: The Black Sea Region at the Time of the Mongol Empire
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SEVEN An Ocean of Islands: Islands, Insularity, and Historiography of the Indian Ocean
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EIGHT Skerries, Haffs, and Icefloes: Small Seas and Maritime Histories
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NINE The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Peiresc
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Afterthoughts: Histories in Bottles
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-11867-0 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02901-3 (ebook)