The Sea : Thalassography and Historiography
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780472118670
- ISBN-10: 0472118676
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- Publish Date: April 2013
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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