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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2004; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 910.45
• Soggetto topico: Ocean and civilization; Ocean - History; Ocean travel
• Altri autori: KleinBernhard <1963-> MackenthunGesa <1959->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sea changes
• ISBN: 1-135-94046-0; 1-283-58960-5; 9786613902054; 0-203-49853-4; 1-135-94047-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954570303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II