The Sea

Thalassography and Historiography

Peter N. Miller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2013
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11867-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 imbedded in networks of motion. As Peter 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 professionalisation as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organising, of histories of the sea.

Autor

Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
• Zusatzinfo: 8 figures
• Verlagsort: Ann Arbor
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 652 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• ISBN-10: 0-472-11867-6 / 0472118676
• ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11867-0 / 9780472118670
• Zustand: Neuware