Klein / Mackenthun Sea Changes

Historicizing the Ocean
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-94047-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Bernhard

Mackenthun, Gesa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Seestreitkräfte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun
1. Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea, Greg Dening
2. Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach, Vanessa Smith
3. The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities and Culture, James Francis Warren
4. Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce, David A. Chappell
5. Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano, Bernhard Klein
6. The Red Atlantic; or, 'a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea', Marcus Rediker
7. Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic, Gesa Mackenthun
8. 'At Sea-Coloured Passenger', Alasdair Pettinger
9. Slavery, Insurance and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic, Tim Armstrong
10. Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth, Peter Hulme

Über Autor(innen)

Bernhard Klein is Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture. Gesa Mackenthun is Professor in American Studies at Rostock University in Germany. In addition to numerous essays on the topics of nineteenth-century American literature, colonialism, and postcolonial studies, she is the author of Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire, 1492-1637.