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The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography (The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World)
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Hardcover. A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history Editor(s): Miller, Peter N. Series: The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World. Num Pages: 312 pages, map. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBTM; PSPM; RBKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
The Sea brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography---the study of the world made by individuals imbedded in networks of motion. As Peter Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange ... Read more
The Sea brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography---the study of the world made by individuals imbedded in networks of motion. As Peter Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118670
SKU
V9780472118670
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Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center.
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