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The Red Sea : in search of lost space / / Alexis Wick



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Autore: Wick Alexis <1981-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Red Sea : in search of lost space / / Alexis Wick Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina: 909.096533
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / World
Soggetto geografico: Red Sea Region History
Soggetto non controllato: geohistory of red sea
historians
history of the middle east
history of the red sea
maritime history turkey
maritime history
maritime scholarship
mediterranean studies
mediterranean waterways
middle east studies
middle eastern history
middle eastern waterways
modern history of the red sea
ottoman empire
ottoman geography
red sea oceanography
red sea region
red sea trade
red sea
seas and empire
study of oceans and seas
thalassology
turkish history
water in turkey
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction. History at Sea: Space and the Other -- 1. The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea -- 2. Thalassology alla Turca: Six Theses on the Philosophy of History -- 3. Self-Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, June 21, 1777 -- 4. The Scientific Invention of the Red Sea -- 5. Thalassomania: Modernity and the Sea -- Conclusion. Rigging the Historian's Craft : For an Epistemology of Composition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historian's craft.
Titolo autorizzato: The Red Sea  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96126-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797999903321
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