{"product_id":"the-underharbor-ann-elias-9780226851990","title":"The Underharbor: Submerged Histories of Sydney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn underwater look at Sydney that surfaces new and unfamiliar histories of people, objects, spaces, and environmental and social change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Underharbor\u003c\/i\u003e places the ocean at the center of a cultural history of Sydney, Australia, a place built on and around seawater, where the community is linked historically, emotionally, and psychologically to the water. Drawing on a series of vignettes that focus on Sydney's underwater dimensions--including the harbor's relationship to technological modernity, Indigenous ideas and practices, artistic experimentation, and scientific inquiry--Ann Elias creates a unique portrait of a city and its past. By shifting the terrestrial perspective to the subaquatic, Elias uncovers an area filled with political meaning, poetic significance, and ideological struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew harbors are as researched as Sydney's, where fishing, exploration, colonialism, warfare, science, and industry all shaped cultural ideas about underwater space. Between 1850 to 1950, only a few groups of people had access to the remote underharbor: Indigenous divers and First Nations peoples, who were dispossessed by colonizers; divers working primarily to further the maritime industrialization of the growing city and to salvage objects from the harbor floor; researchers in the emerging field of marine science who dove for first-hand observation; and beachcombers, naturalists, and dredgers who got to know the underharbor by bringing it to the surface. Through press stories, models, illustrations, maps, and photographic and cinematic representations, \u003ci\u003eThe Underharbor\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how these watery visions of Sydney shifted over the course of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Elias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226851990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226851990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ann Elias","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083955708159,"sku":"9780226851990","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-underharbor-ann-elias-9780226851990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}