A world history of the seas : from harbour to horizon
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A world history of the seas : from harbour to horizon
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
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Zwischen Hafen und Horizont : Weltgeschichte der Meere
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Originally published: München : C.H. Beck, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-283) and index
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Description
Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day.
Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Sea in Antiquity
2. North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea: The Vikings
3. Red Sea, Arabian Sea, South China Sea: The Maritime Silk Road
4. Mediterranean: The rise of the Maritime Republics
5. Metropoles on the North and Baltic Seas
6. Indian Ocean: Europe meets Asia
7. Atlantic: Expanding horizons and exchanges
8. Pacific: Exploration and Encounter
9. Global Seas: From Sail to Steam and the Communication Revolution
10. Dangerous Seas: Exploitation, Pollution and the Refugee Crisis
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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