Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges

by Kären E. Wigen

Book Overview

Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions around the world. The essays presented here take a variety of approaches. One group examines the material, cultural, and intellectual constructs that inform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082483027X
• ISBN13: 9780824830274
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"