Beyond the Sea : : Reviewing the manifold dimensions of water as barrier and bridge / / Heta Hurskainen, Marta Grzechnik.
The dominant narratives about the seas and maritime regions in European societies have usually placed them at the periphery, distant from the social and political centres, and often perceived as empty spaces akin to deserts: they could be crossed but not used. Therefore, most categories to examine s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Köln : : Böhlau Verlag, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | German English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Beyond the Sea. Introduction
- “Why do we violate strange seas and sacred waters?”
- Image of Seas and Rivers as a frontier between the different worlds in Russian Medieval narrative
- Amber rosaries, Baltic furs, and Persian carpets
- The First German Dream of the Ocean
- Naval Strength and Mercantile Weakness
- From moat to connecting link
- Mining for Manganese Nodules
- The Öresund region
- Governance—an Analytical Concept to Study the Baltic Sea Region?
- Maritime Governance in the Baltic Sea Region
- Logistic Revolutions and territorial change
- Biographical Notes
- Index
- Backmatter