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Online-Ressource (231 p)
ISBN:
9780415946506
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The 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. Sea Changes 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
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Cover; Sea Changes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Is History; Notes; Chapter 1: Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea; Polyglot Time: Polyglot Space; Encompassing Oceania; The Theater of Reenactment; Observing the Unobservable; Ocean; Civilizing the Sea; Double-Visioned History; Way-Finding; Looming; Notes; Chapter 2: Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach; Divested of Command; The Moment of Discovery; Opposite Camps; Breeches of Etiquette; Seeing through Clothes; "A Proper Sample"; "A Genteel Dressing"
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NotesChapter 3: The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture; Introduction: Space and Time; Commodities and the Search for Labor; Lanun: A Terrifying Presence; Colonialism's Pirates; Notes; Chapter 4: Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce; Notes; Chapter 5: Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano; I; II; III; Notes; Chapter 6: The Red Atlantic; or,"A Terrible Blast Swept Over the Heaving Sea"; Notes
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Chapter 7: Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black AtlanticChartless Voyages; The Grandeur of Egypt; Hybrid Geographies; Protean Ships; Notes; Chapter 8: "At Sea-Coloured Passenger"; I; II; III; Notes; Chapter 9: Slavery, Insurance, and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic; In Transit: Insuring Slaves; Maritime Cannibalism, or Why Eating People Is Wrong; Notes; Chapter 10: Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth; Notes; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135940478
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415946506
Additional Edition:
Print version Sea Changes : Historicizing the Ocean
Language:
English
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