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 aro...

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