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Author:   Krish Seetah ,  Justin Leidwanger
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032142290

ISBN 10:   3032142296
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   04 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The benefits and utility of integrating heritage research.- Chapter 2. Maritime culture, Nissology, Aquapelagos and Archaeology: the theory and practice of not stopping at the shoreline.- Chapter 3. The paradox of maritime archaeological heritage: popular but neglected.- Chapter 4. Submerged and stranded: archaeological heritage and Indigenous dispossession in a national park reserve on the Pacific coast of Canada.- Chapter 5. Commodification of marine invertebrate resources in Palau threatens natural and cultural heritage.- Chapter 6. Perpetuating cultural heritage of  evironmental stewardship through political transformations: The Republic of Palau’s return to sovereignty and evolution of its natural resource governance.- Chapter 7. Mobilizing millennia of maritime connectivity in Southeast Sicily.- Chapter 8. Diving into Marzamemi: The “Church Wreck” and Sicilian Underwater.- Chapter 9. Investigating a maritime cultural landscape at Vendicari, Southeast Sicily.- Chapter 10. Aligning terrestrial and maritime archaeological research agendas in Mauritius.- Chapter 11. Maritime archaeology and shipwrecks in Mauritius: present, past, and future.- Chapter 12. Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH): a glimpse from the management perspective.- Chapter 13. Protection and management of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) in Mauritius: problems and prospects of the 2001 UNESCO Convention.- Chapter 14. Developing new ways to preserve heritage across scattered islands.- Chapter 15. Small island nations: exploring the intersection of natural and cultural heritage for marine resource management.- Chapter 16. Moving forward: Proposals for integrating maritime heritage.

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Krish Seetah directs the ‘Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage’ project, which studies European colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, which includes an emphasis on maritime heritage research, and the ways in which underwater culture heritage influence local ecology and policy. His publications include ‘Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean’ (OUP), which won the 2019 Society for American Archaeology Book Prize in the Scholarly category. Justin Leidwanger has directed fieldwork on the maritime archaeology and heritage of trade, interaction, and mobility in Cyprus, Türkiye, and most recently in Sicily, where he coordinates the collaborative Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project. He is the author of ‘Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies’ and editor of various other volumes on topics ranging from port networks and transport amphoras to seafaring modeling.

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