The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography

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 embedded in networks of motion. As Peter N. Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. The Sea focuses not on questions of discipline and professionalization as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organizing, of histories of the sea.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472118676
• ISBN13: 9780472118670
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"