Ocean and civilization

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Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Ba…

Introduction : writing world oceanic histories / Sujit Sivasundaram, Alison Bashford and David Armitage -- The Indian Ocean / Sujit Sivasundaram -- The Pacific Ocean / Alison Bashford -- The Atlantic Ocean / David Armitage -- The South China Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo -- The Mediter…

"Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the B…

"Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and imagination. The Aesthetics of the Undersea charts a history of the subaqueous in Western culture, from the early modern per…

Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western cultur…

"Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and imagination. The Aesthetics of the Undersea charts a history of the subaqueous in Western culture, from the early modern per…

"Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and imagination. The Aesthetics of the Undersea charts a history of the subaqueous in Western culture, from the early modern per…

The color of saturated seas / Stefan Helmreich -- Hydromedia : from water literacy to the ethics of saturation / Joanna Zylinska -- Fossil fuels, fossil waters : aquifers, pipelines, and indigenous water rights / Avery Slater -- Sonic saturation and militarized subjectivity in C…

"Saturation shows how underwater points of view have much to teach us about the nature of objectivity, teaching us to look for the ways that a terrestrial bias appears in the ways we speak about and orient to the world. The volume takes the ocean as a vital starting place from w…