The Ocean Reader

History, Culture, Politics
Herausgeber: Roorda, Eric Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collecting texts from all corners of the world that span antiquity to the present, The Ocean Reader charts humans' relationship to the ocean, treating it as a dynamic site of history, culture, and politics.

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Produktdetails

• The World Readers
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006961
• ISBN-10: 147800696X
• Artikelnr.: 55488899

Autorenporträt

Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University; coeditor of The Dominican Republic Reader and author of The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945, both also published by Duke University Press; and editor of Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on The Ocean Reader  xv
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
I. Creation  5
II. Ancient Seas  41
III. Unknown Waters  73
IV. Saltwater Hunt  121
V. Watery Highways  151
VI. Battlefields  203
VII. Piracy  261
VIII. Shipwrecks and Castaways  297
IX. Inspiration  337
X. Recreation  377
XI. Laboratory  433
XII. The Endangered Ocean  463
Suggestions for Further Reading  499
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources  505
Index 515