Red Sea (eBook)

In Search of Lost Space

Alexis Wick (Autor)

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2016
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96126-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the world's most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand Braudel's famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history.Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historian's craft.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction. History at Sea: Space and the Other
1 • The Place in the Middle: A Geohistory of the Red Sea
2 • Thalassology alla Turca: Six Theses on the Philosophy of History
3 • Self-Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, June 21, 1777
4 • The Scientific Invention of the Red Sea
5 • Thalassomania: Modernity and the Sea
Conclusion. Rigging the Historian’s Craft: For an Epistemology of Composition

Notes
Bibliography
Index  

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: geohistory of red sea • historians • History of the Middle East • history of the red sea • Maritime History • maritime history turkey • maritime scholarship • Mediterranean Studies • mediterranean waterways • Middle Eastern History • middle eastern waterways • Middle East studies • modern history of the red sea • Ottoman Empire • ottoman geography • Red Sea • red sea oceanography • red sea region • red sea trade • seas and empire • study of oceans and seas • Thalassology • Turkish history • Water in Turkey
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96126-9 / 0520961269
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96126-5 / 9780520961265