A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age by Torma, Franziska

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350451292)

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A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age by Torma, Franziska

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age

$35.95
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age by Torma, Franziska

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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In 1972 an image became an icon: 'Blue Marble', a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe's water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and culture in the modern world. Within the time-span of 100 years, the sea changed its cultural meaning, from a dangerous place to an endangered environment.

This volume traces diverse processes of oceanic transformation in the Anthropocene: it follows scientists, seafarers, diplomats and filmmakers from ship-decks to the arenas of political decision making on land. The essays lead from underwater dumping grounds to islands in the south pacific. Tiny organisms like plankton and charismatic megafauna like whales accompanied the human voyages. The presence of the animals challenges common notions of human culture. The global age has to take non-human agents into account to fully understand the cultural history of the seas.

Author: Franziska Torma
ISBN-10: 1350451290
ISBN-13: 9781350451292
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2024
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.65w x 1.00d
By Franziska Torma
By Franziska Torma
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Franziska Torma is Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She has worked on the history of marine biology in a project funded by the German Research Foundation and her research interests include the history of science and the cultural and environmental history of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is the editor of Fluid Frontiers: New Currents in Marine Environmental History (2015, with John R. Gillis) and Exploring Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments (2018, with Julia Herzberg and Christian Kehrt).

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