{"product_id":"a-world-at-sea-maritime-practices-and-global-history-hardback-9780812252415","title":"A World at Sea; Maritime Practices and Global History (Hardback) 9780812252415","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA World at Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaritime Practices and Global History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLauren Benton (Edited by), Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812252415\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 12 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.586 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA World at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e explores several neglected aspects of the period while also refreshingly venturing outside of the series' traditional geographic focus on the Atlantic World. In their shared aim of placing maritime practices at the centre of world history, the contributors to this fine collection of essays propose a useful and convincing conceptual framework for maritime world history based on the study of land-sea regimes.\" (Histoire sociale\/Social History) \"This volume is a clear example of an edited collection that is more than the sum of its parts. While the tone of each chapter is varied and individual – some are narrative, some are tightly focused on a particular region or event, others aim at broader theorizations – the variety does not detract from the argument, and in fact adds interest for the reader. It is an essential book for moving the field of global history in a direction that does not neglect power, while also pushing to provincialize Europe and examine the (unequally) shared role of non-European actors in the creation of the modern world.\" (Connections) \"Encompassing a vast array of methodological, geographical, and argumentative perspectives, \u003ci\u003eA World at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e makes a timely and important intervention into critical studies of seas, oceans, and empires in global history.\" (Philip Stern, Duke University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major transformations in world history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA World at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they influenced global change. The first section highlights the regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The second section studies documentary practices that aggregated and conveyed information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the wide-ranging impact of the explosion of new information about the maritime world. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea divide as a threshold of power, the last section features essays that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and sociolegal practices spanning land and sea. Maritime history, the contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of experimentation, innovation, and disruption that reflected and sparked wide-ranging global change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps, Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Making Maritime History Global\u003cbr\u003e Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Lauren Benton\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Currents\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Why Did Anyone Go to Sea? Structures of Maritime Enlistment from Family Traditions to Violent Coercion\u003cbr\u003e Carla Rahn Phillips\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Between the Company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over Deerskins\u003cbr\u003e Adam Clulow and Xing Hang\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"The Law Is the Lord of the Sea\": Maritime Law as Global Maritime History\u003cbr\u003e Matthew Taylor Raffety\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Dispatches\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reading Cargoes: Letters and the Problem of Nationality in the Age of Privateering\u003cbr\u003e Nathan Perl-Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Sailors, States, and the Creation of Nautical Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Schotte\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production\u003cbr\u003e David Igler\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Thresholds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in Colonial Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e Jeppe Mulich\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the Water's Edge: Japan's Opening as Coastal Encounter\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Phipps\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: A Global Survey of Women in Premodern and Early Modern Fisheries\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Norling\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Land-Sea Regimes in World History\u003cbr\u003e Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734358880536,"sku":"9780812252415","price":31.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-world-at-sea-maritime-practices-and-global-history-hardback-9780812252415","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}