Introduction: The sea is the land's edge also / Peter N. Miller -- Two men in a boat : the Braudel-Goitein "correspondence" and the beginning of thalassography / Peter N. Miller -- Atlantic and Caribbean perspectives : analyzing a hybrid and entangled world / Wim Klooster -- Tide, beach, and backwash : the place of maritime histories / Nicholas Purcell -- The East Asian "Mediterranean" : a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world / Angela Schottenhammer -- Metaphorical perspectives of the sea and the Sulu zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren -- Connecting maritime and continental history : the Black Sea region at the time of the Mongol empire / Nicola di Cosmo -- An ocean of islands : islands, insularity, and historiography of the Indian Ocean / Roxani Margariti -- Skerries, haffs, and icefloes : small seas and maritime histories / David Kirby -- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Peiresc / Peter N. Miller -- Afterthoughts: Histories in bottles / Sanjay Subrahmanyam. |