Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges 9780824864248
Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the histor
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Islands in the Making of an Atlantic Oceania, 1500 –1800
1. Vessels of Exchange: The Global Shipwright in the Pacifi
3. Maritime Ideologies and Ethnic Anomalies: Sea Space and the Structure of Subalternity in the Southeast Asian Littoral
4. The Organization of Oceanic Empires The Iberian World in the Habsburg Period
5. The Ottoman “Discovery” of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century
6. Lines of Plunder or Crucible of Modernity? The Legal Geography of the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1660-1825
7. Transgressive Exchange Circumventing Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Commercial Restrictions, or The Discount of Monte Christi
Sociologies
8. “Tavern of the Seas”? The Cape of Good Hope as an Oceanic Crossroads during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
9. That Turbulent Soil Seafarers, the “Black Atlantic,” and Afro-Caribbean Identity
10. Race, Migration, and Port-City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire, 1880-1920
11. South Asian Seafarers and Their Worlds: c. 1870-1930s
Transgressors
12. Marking Water Piracy and Property in the Premodern West
13. With the Sea as Their Domain Pirates and Maritime Lordship in Medieval Japan
14. The Pirate and the Gallows An Atlantic Theater of Terror and Resistance
Contributors
Index
