Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans - Hardcover

Dave, Romeel

 
9781780239972: Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1780239971 ISBN 13: 9781780239972
Verlag: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A history of humanity's relationship with oceans across cultures and centuries. Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and evolutionary time.

Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied through industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. Rozwadowski argues that knowledge about the oceans--created through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through human ambitions for profiting from the sea--has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless, and opaque place. It has helped us to exploit marine resources, control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human activity.

But while deepening knowledge of the ocean has animated and strengthened connections between people and the world's seas, to understand this history, we must address questions of how, by whom, and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used--and how we create and use this knowledge today. Only then can we forge a healthier relationship with our future sea.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Founder of the University of Connecticut's Maritime Studies program, Helen M. Rozwadowski teaches history of science, environmental history and public history as well as interdisciplinary and experiential maritime-related courses. She is the author of Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (2008) and co-editor of Soundings and Crossings: Doing Science at Sea 1800-1970 (2016).

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Verlag
Reaktion Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780239971
ISBN 13 
9781780239972
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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