The sea thalassography and historiography / Peter N. Miller, editor.

Other author Miller, Peter N., 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : The University of Michigan Press,
Descriptionx, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesThe Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world
Contents Introduction: The sea is the land's edge also / Peter N. Miller -- Two men in a boat : the Braudel-Goitein "correspondence" and the beginning of thalassography / Peter N. Miller -- Atlantic and Caribbean perspectives : analyzing a hybrid and entangled world / Wim Klooster -- Tide, beach, and backwash : the place of maritime histories / Nicholas Purcell -- The East Asian "Mediterranean" : a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world / Angela Schottenhammer -- Metaphorical perspectives of the sea and the Sulu zone, 1768-1898 / James Francis Warren -- Connecting maritime and continental history : the Black Sea region at the time of the Mongol empire / Nicola di Cosmo -- An ocean of islands : islands, insularity, and historiography of the Indian Ocean / Roxani Margariti -- Skerries, haffs, and icefloes : small seas and maritime histories / David Kirby -- The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Peiresc / Peter N. Miller -- Afterthoughts: Histories in bottles / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012047391
ISBN9780472118670 (cloth : acid-free paper)