Oceanic Histories (Cambridge Oceanic Histories)

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Series information
Title page
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Table of contents
List of maps
List of contributors
Introduction
	The Naval and the Oceanic
	Oceanic Environments and Ecologies
	Watery Spaces
	Historical Temporalities of the Sea
	Conclusions
	Further Reading
Part I Oceans
	1 The Indian Ocean
		Narrators of the Indian Ocean
		Traders and Labourers
		Knowledges and Environments
		Modern Formations
		No Single Line Across the Ocean
		Further Reading
	2 The Pacific Ocean
		Pacific Chronologies
		Pacific Geographies
		Maritime, Imperial and Postcolonial Histories
		Economy and Ecology
		Traffic: Slavery, Labour, Migration
		Ways of Knowing
		Pacific Centuries
		Further Reading
	3 The Atlantic Ocean
		Atlantic History’s Hundred Horizons
		Three (More) Concepts of Atlantic History
		Infra-Atlantic History
		Sub-Atlantic History
		Extra-Atlantic History
		Further Reading
Part II Seas
	4 The South China Sea
		Early and Medieval Templates: The South China Sea as a Region
		Changing Patterns: The Early Modern South China Sea
		Into Modernity: New Political, Ecological and Economic Systems
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
	5 The Mediterranean Sea
		Against the Mediterranean
		The Ottoman Mediterranean
		The Mediterranean and Global History
		On Cosmopolitanism
		The Mediterranean Graveyard
		Further Reading
	6 The Red Sea
		Geography and Naming
		Historiographic Perspectives, Old and New
		Discovering the Red Sea
		Imagining the Red Sea: Boundaries, Mobility and Spatial Integration
		Space and Scale between the Local, Regional and Global
		Further Reading
	7 The Sea of Japan/Korea’s East Sea
		Names Change or Stay the Same
		Connective Threads
		Tragedy in a Connective Sea
		In Closing
		Further Reading
	8 The Baltic Sea
		Medieval and Modern Notions of the Baltic Sea
		The Baltic Sea as a Contact Zone: The Hanseatic League
		The Baltic as a Dutch Lake
		The Upswing in Baltic Trade
		The Baltic as a Crossroads to Other Seas and Oceans
		Conclusion: The Baltic Sea as a Model Region
		Further Reading
	9 The Black Sea
		The Role of the Environment
		The ‘Hospitable Sea’ of Ancient Times
		A Sea at the Crossroads of the Middle Ages
		The ‘Ottoman Lake’
		From the Opening of the Straits to Steam Navigation
		Maritime Circulations in the Twilight of Empires
		Glacial Period: Conflicts and the Collapse of Circulations
		The Thawing of the Black Sea
		Sailing between a Lull and Storm Clouds
		Calming the Waters: For a New Narrative of the Black Sea
		Further Reading
Part III Poles
	10 The Arctic Ocean
		An Ocean of High Modernity
		Arctic Ocean – Arctic or Ocean?
		The Non-Historical Ocean
		Prehistoric Coastal Settlements
		Establishing the Ocean
		Entering the Polity
		Knowing the Ocean
		The Bellwether Ocean
		Becoming a Meta-Geographical Space
		Further Reading
	11 The Southern Ocean
		Early Human Approaches
		An Ocean of Whales and Whaling
		Contemporary Order, Protection and Management
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
Index