Authors:Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, Karen Wige,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Pre
Keywords: exchanges, perspectives, global, past, transoceanic, cultures, maritime, histories, littoral, seascapes
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 082483027X
ISBN-13: 9780824830274

The world’s seas and oceans have played roles of great significance in world history, serving variously as highways of trade, routes of migration, lifelines of empires, spawning grounds of creole cultures, and venues of opportunity for pirates and smugglers. Yet 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 pres

Author: G. W. Trompf
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: movements, religious, religion, society, new, transoceanic, cults, millenarian, cargo, comparisons
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1990-07
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 3110121662
ISBN-13: 9783110121667