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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954570303321

Titolo

Sea changes : historicizing the ocean / / edited by Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-94046-0

1-283-58960-5

9786613902054

0-203-49853-4

1-135-94047-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KleinBernhard <1963->

MackenthunGesa <1959->

Disciplina

910.45

Soggetti

Ocean and civilization

Ocean - History

Ocean travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Sea Changes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Is History; Notes; Chapter 1: Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea; Polyglot Time: Polyglot Space; Encompassing Oceania; The Theater of Reenactment; Observing the Unobservable; Ocean; Civilizing the Sea; Double-Visioned History; Way-Finding; Looming; Notes; Chapter 2: Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach; Divested of Command; The Moment of Discovery; Opposite Camps; Breeches of Etiquette; Seeing through Clothes; ""A Proper Sample""; ""A Genteel Dressing""

NotesChapter 3: The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture; Introduction: Space and Time; Commodities and the Search for Labor; Lanun: A Terrifying Presence; Colonialism's Pirates; Notes; Chapter 4: Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce; Notes; Chapter 5: Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano; I; II;



III; Notes; Chapter 6: The Red Atlantic;  or,""A Terrible Blast Swept Over the Heaving Sea""; Notes

Chapter 7: Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black AtlanticChartless Voyages; The Grandeur of Egypt; Hybrid Geographies; Protean Ships; Notes; Chapter 8: ""At Sea-Coloured Passenger""; I; II; III; Notes; Chapter 9: Slavery, Insurance, and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic; In Transit: Insuring Slaves; Maritime Cannibalism, or Why Eating People Is Wrong; Notes; Chapter 10: Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.