A World at Sea
Maritime Practices and Global History
Edited by Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
280 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus.
Cloth 2020 | ISBN 9780812252415 | $ 45.00s | Outside the Americas £36.00
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A volume in the series Early Modern Americas
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“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 “ This volume is a clear case of an edit collection that is more than the union of its parts. While the timbre of each chapter is varied and individual—some are narrative, some are tightly focused on a detail area or event, others aim at broader theorizations—the variety show does not detract from the controversy, and in fact adds interest for the proofreader. It is an essential bible for moving the field of global history in a focus that does not neglect power, while besides pushing to provincialize Europe and examine the ( unevenly ) shared character of non-European actors in the creation of the modern world.— Connections “ Encompassing a huge array of methodological, geographic, and argumentative perspectives, A World at Sea makes a seasonably and authoritative treatment into critical studies of seas, oceans, and empires in ball-shaped history. “ —Philip Stern, Duke University
The 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. The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in nautical history, including fresh inquiry on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history even inhabits an disjunct 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 ball-shaped nautical practices and major transformations in populace history. A World at Sea consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our sympathy of practices and processes across the land-sea watershed and the direction they influenced ball-shaped change. The first incision highlights the regulative order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The moment section studies documentary practices that aggregated and impart information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the varied shock of the plosion of new information about the nautical earth. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea divide as a doorway of power, the death section features essays that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and sociolegal practices spanning kingdom and ocean. Maritime history, the contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of experiment, invention, and break that reflected and sparked wide-ranging ball-shaped variety.
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Contributors : Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps, Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.
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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. View your shopping cart | Browse Penn Press titles in european History, World History | Join our mailing list
