The Ocean Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Buch | Hardcover

552 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0600-8 (ISBN)

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From prehistoric times to the present, the Ocean has been used as a highway for trade, a source of food and resources, and a space for recreation and military conquest, as well as an inspiration for religion, culture, and the arts. The Ocean Reader charts humans' relationship to the Ocean, which has often been seen as a changeless space without a history. It collects familiar, forgotten, and previously unpublished texts from all corners of the world. Spanning antiquity to the present, the volume's selections cover myriad topics including the slave trade, explorers from China and the Middle East, shipwrecks and castaways, Caribbean and Somali pirates, battles and U-boats, narratives of the Ocean's origins, and the devastating effects of climate change. Containing gems of maritime writing ranging from myth, memoir, poetry, and scientific research to journalism, song lyrics, and scholarly writing, The Ocean Reader is the essential guide for all those wanting to understand the complex and long history of the Ocean that covers over 70 percent of the planet.

Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University; coeditor of The Dominican Republic Reader and author of The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945, both also published by Duke University Press; and editor of Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

A Note on The Ocean Reader xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
I. Creation 5
II. Ancient Seas 41
III. Unknown Waters 73
IV. Saltwater Hunt 121
V. Watery Highways 151
VI. Battlefields 203
VII. Piracy 261
VIII. Shipwrecks and Castaways 297
IX. Inspiration 337
X. Recreation 377
XI. Laboratory 433
XII. The Endangered Ocean 463
Suggestions for Further Reading 499
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 505
Index 515

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	The World Readers
Zusatzinfo	82 illustrations, incl. 9 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0600-5 / 1478006005
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0600-8 / 9781478006008
Zustand	Neuware