Ocean and civilization

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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…

Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of…

"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…

"Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate as a way of exploring the relationship between media, the e…

"Maritime spaces are socially constructed by humans and refer to seas and islands, coasts, port cities and villages, as well as ships and other human-made marine structures. Social interaction with marine environments and living beings, e.g. in a symbolic, cultural or economic m…

Neptune's Laboratory traces shifts over the last two centuries in the imagination of ocean space by scientists, policy makers, and the public. Oceans gained prominence in the public's imagination in the early nineteenth century as scientists first probed the depths, and marine f…

Neptune's Laboratory traces shifts over the last two centuries in the imagination of ocean space by scientists, policy makers, and the public. Oceans gained prominence in the public's imagination in the early nineteenth century as scientists first probed the depths, and marine f…

Neptune's Laboratory traces shifts over the last two centuries in the imagination of ocean space by scientists, policy makers, and the public. Oceans gained prominence in the public's imagination in the early nineteenth century as scientists first probed the depths, and marine f…

How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this important four volume work. The books bring together the world's leading maritime historians, who address the question of what difference the sea made in relation …

How important has the sea been in the development of human history? Very important indeed is the conclusion of this important four volume work. The books bring together the world's leading maritime historians, who address the question of what difference the sea made in relation …

The Sea in History - The Modern World covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the global reach of major powers frequently brought them into conflict with each other, including conflict at sea. The many majors wars at sea of the period are discussed, as are the planni…