Seascapes : : Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges / / ed. by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Kären Wigen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Balachandran, G.,; Casale, Giancarlo,; Cobley, Alan Gregor,; Faussette, Risa L.,; Gaynor, Jennifer L.,; Gillis, John R.,; Gould, Eliga H.,; Karras, Alan L.,; Phillips, Carla Rahn,; Rediker, Marcus,; Shapinsky, Peter D.,; Tai, Emily Sohmer,; Van Tilburg, Hans Konrad,; Ward, Kerry,; Wigen, Kären,
• HerausgeberIn: Bentley, Jerry H.,; Bridenthal, Renate,; Wigen, Kären,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania, 1500 -1800 -- 1. Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright in the Pacifi -- 3. Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral -- 4. The Organization of Oceanic Empires The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period -- 5. The Ottoman "Discovery" of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century -- 6. Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825 -- 7. Transgressive Exchange Circumventing Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Commercial Restrictions, or The Discount of Monte Christi -- Sociologies -- 8. "Tavern of the Seas"? The Cape of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 9. That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the "Black Atlantic," and Afro-Caribbean Identity -- 10. Race, Migration, and Port-City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire, 1880-1920 -- 11. South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: c. 1870-1930s -- Transgressors -- 12. Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West -- 13. With the Sea as Their Domain Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan -- 14. The Pirate and the Gallows An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance -- Contributors -- Index