A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History Benton Lauren
A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History Benton Lauren The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy,…
Specifikacia A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History Benton Lauren
A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History Benton Lauren
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major transformations in world history.A World at Sea consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they influenced global change. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
The first section highlights the regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts