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OverviewThe 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. SeaChanges 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bernhard Klein , Gesa MackenthunPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9780415946506ISBN 10: 0415946506 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 05 December 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea, 2. Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach, 3. The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities and Culture, 4. Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce, 5. Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano, 6. The Red Atlantic; or, 'a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea', 7. Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic, 8. 'At Sea-Coloured Passenger', 9. Slavery, Insurance and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic, 10. Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the EarthReviewsThis terrific collection makes major contributions to several dynamic fields of historical inquiry, as it decisively demonstrates the centrality-not marginality-of an oceanic perspective to our understanding of the past. The volume is exciting both for what it achieves and the possibilities it suggests . -- Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean builds upon recent theoretical developments in Maritime Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies to place our understanding of the sea in a deeply historicized, complex, nuanced, and dynamic context. It joins important works like Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh's The Many-Headed Hydra in extending and radically reshaping our understanding of a significant arena of contemporary scholarship . -- Jim Miller, George Washington University This terrific collection makes major contributions to several dynamic fields of historical inquiry, as it decisively demonstrates the centralityDLnot marginalityDLof an oceanic perspective to our understanding of the past. The volume is exciting both for what it achieves and the possibilities it suggests<br>. <br>-Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota <br> Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean builds upon recent theoretical developments in Maritime Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies to place our understanding of the sea in a deeply historicized, complex, nuanced, and dynamic context. It joins important works like Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh's The Many-Headed Hydra in extending and radically reshaping our understanding of a significant arena of contemporary scholarship<br>. <br>-Jim Miller, George Washington University <br> This terrific collection makes major contributions to several dynamic fields of historical inquiry, as it decisively demonstrates the centralityDLnot marginalityDLof an oceanic perspective to our understanding of the past. The volume is exciting both for what it achieves and the possibilities it suggests. -Lisa Norling, University of Minnesota Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean builds upon recent theoretical developments in Maritime Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies to place our understanding of the sea in a deeply historicized, complex, nuanced, and dynamic context. It joins important works like Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh's The Many-Headed Hydra in extending and radically reshaping our understanding of a significant arena of contemporary scholarship. -Jim Miller, George Washington University Author InformationBernhard Klein is Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Fictions of the Sea: CriticalPerspectives on the Ocean in British Literature andCulture. Gesa Mackenthun is Professor in American Studies at Rostock University in Germany. In addition to numerous essays on the topics of nineteenth-century American literature, colonialism, and postcolonial studies, she is the author of Metaphors of Dispossession:American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire,1492-1637. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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