The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472118670)

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.

Author: Peter N. Miller
ISBN-10: 0472118676
ISBN-13: 9780472118670
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2013
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013