This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the uncanny, eerie, wondrous, and dreaded dimensions of oceans, seas, waterways and watery forms of the Oceanic South. This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examin...Daugiau...
Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe.For many years now, the main thrust of European prehistory has f...Daugiau...
This book explores the collection and documentation of the natural worlds development over the course of the nineteenth century into a vast network of scientists who attempted to categorize and understand nature, particularly in the botanically ric...Daugiau...
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across...Daugiau...
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean an...Daugiau...
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean an...Daugiau...
This book is about a Small Island, namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a Large Ocean, the Indian Ocean worldits peoples, histories and cultures. This book is about a Small Island, namely Maurit...Daugiau...
Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect?56 experts, 48 chapters and over 1,700...Daugiau...
Across the 19th century, maritime globalization expanded at a hitherto unimaginable pace, transforming transport and communications over the seas into oceanic networks at a planetary scale. These networks shaped culture in its most expansive...Daugiau...
This volume covers a period when Europeans were making great advances in the production and application of pure knowledge, especially in the fields of navigation and discovery. Thus European powers gained empires around the globe and the bene...Daugiau...
The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war against ones neighbors. Perhaps because th...Daugiau...
For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into new waters, where they encountered new trading partners...Daugiau...
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and p...Daugiau...
In 1972 an image became an icon: Blue Marble, a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globes water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Jul-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803996820)
A social history of the worlds busiest seaway It was half a million years ago that Britain first parted from Europe. As ice melted, water smashed through the chalky land bridge that separated Britain from the continent of Europe, f...Daugiau...
The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world. (history general). Simultaneous. Fo...Daugiau...
This dynamic multidisciplinary collection of essays examines the uncanny, eerie, wondrous, and dreaded dimensions of oceans, seas, waterways, and watery forms of the oceanic South, a haunted global precinct stretching across the Pacific, Southern...Daugiau...
This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on oceans islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period fr...Daugiau...
This book explores histories of droughts and floods in the Indian Ocean World, and their connections to broader global climatic anomalies. It deploys an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the emerging field of climate history to investigate the mu...Daugiau...
