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Author:   Lauren Benton ,  Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812252415

ISBN 10:   0812252411
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   09 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Introduction. Making Maritime History Global Nathan Perl-Rosenthal and Lauren Benton Part I. Currents Chapter 1. Why Did Anyone Go to Sea? Structures of Maritime Enlistment from Family Traditions to Violent Coercion Carla Rahn Phillips Chapter 2. Between the Company and Koxinga: Territorial Waters, Trade, and War over Deerskins Adam Clulow and Xing Hang Chapter 3. ""The Law Is the Lord of the Sea"": Maritime Law as Global Maritime History Matthew Taylor Raffety Part II. Dispatches Chapter 4. Reading Cargoes: Letters and the Problem of Nationality in the Age of Privateering Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Chapter 5. Sailors, States, and the Creation of Nautical Knowledge Margaret Schotte Chapter 6. Indigenous Maritime Travelers and Knowledge Production David Igler Part III. Thresholds Chapter 7. Maritime Marronage in Colonial Borderlands Jeppe Mulich Chapter 8. Sovereignty at the Water's Edge: Japan's Opening as Coastal Encounter Catherine Phipps Chapter 9. Working Women Who Got Wet: A Global Survey of Women in Premodern and Early Modern Fisheries Lisa Norling Afterword. Land-Sea Regimes in World History Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Notes Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments"

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Encompassing a vast array of methodological, geographical, and argumentative perspectives, A World at Sea makes a timely and important intervention into critical studies of seas, oceans, and empires in global history.--Philip Stern, Duke University

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 A World at Sea 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 Encompassing a vast array of methodological, geographical, and argumentative perspectives, A World at Sea makes a timely and important intervention into critical studies of seas, oceans, and empires in global history.-- Philip Stern, Duke University

Encompassing a vast array of methodological, geographical, and argumentative perspectives, A World at Sea makes a timely and important intervention into critical studies of seas, oceans, and empires in global history. -Philip Stern, Duke University

Author Information

Lauren Benton is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History, Spatial Sciences, and Law at the University of Southern California.

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