Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2007

Seascapes

Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

Edited by: Jerry H. Bentley , Renate Bridenthal and Kären Wigen

In the series Perspectives on the Global Past

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824864248

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Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world.

The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform and explain historical experiences of maritime regions. Another set discusses efforts—some more successful than others—to impose political and military control over maritime regions. A third group focuses on issues of social history such as labor organization, information flows, and the development of political consciousness among subaltern populations. The final essays deal with pirates and efforts to control them in Mediterranean, Japanese, and Atlantic waters.

Reviews

In sum, this volume forms a worthwhile contribution to the historiography on oceanic history.

Seascapes explicitly seeks to transcend individual oceans, to stress ‘interconnectedness’ between land and sea in general and between maritime people and their geographic environments.

Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges is a collection of essays that examine the history of oceanic culture and its effect around the world. [The editors] have gathered tales of Chinese junks, pirate captains and island culture to chart the ways people have exploited the possibilities offered by different maritime environments.

The fourteen articles are well written . . . [and] proves that maritime socio-cultural history forces scholars to rethink their concepts of time, space and knowledge. It not only will help us to understand the past in general but also will clarify how globalization came about.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Kären Wigen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania, 1500 –1800 John R. Gillis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
1. Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright in the Pacifi Hans Konrad Van Tilburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral Jennifer L. Gaynor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. The Organization of Oceanic Empires The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period Carla Rahn Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. The Ottoman “Discovery” of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century Giancarlo Casale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825 Eliga H. Gould Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7. Transgressive Exchange Circumventing Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Commercial Restrictions, or The Discount of Monte Christi Alan L. Karras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Sociologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8. “Tavern of the Seas”? The Cape of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Kerry Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9. That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the “Black Atlantic,” and Afro-Caribbean Identity Alan Gregor Cobley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
10. Race, Migration, and Port-City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire, 1880-1920 Risa L. Faussette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
11. South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: c. 1870-1930s G. Balachandran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Transgressors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12. Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West Emily Sohmer Tai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
13. With the Sea as Their Domain Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan Peter D. Shapinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
14. The Pirate and the Gallows An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance Marcus Rediker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illustrations

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Published: April 30, 2007
ISBN: 9780824864248