Oceans of history

American Historical Review

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 717-721

  Wigen, Kären ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749679572     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.111.3.717     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (New York, 1996);
2. Helen M. Rozwadowski, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
3. Arif Dirlik, ed., What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Boulder, Colo., 1993);
4. Alain Corbin, The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840 (Berkeley, Calif., 1994);
5. Philip Steinberg, The Social Construction of the Ocean (Cambridge, 2001);
6. John Gillis, Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World (New York, 2004).
7. Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Cambridge, 1989);
8. Greg Dening, Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge, 1992);
9. Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston, 2001).
10. Mike Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York, 1998);
11. John Steele Gordon, A Thread across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable (New York, 2003).
12. Richard H. Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1868 (Cambridge, 1996);
13. Richard Ellis, The Empty Ocean (Washington, D.C., 2003);
14. Helen M. Rozwadowski, David K. Van Keuren, and Maury Conference on the History of the Ocean, eds., The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment (Sagamore Beach, Mass., 2004).
15. Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge, 2001);
16. Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas, eds., The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Baltimore, Md., 2005);
17. Elija Gould and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (Baltimore, Md., 2004);
18. Sugata Bose, A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, Mass., 2006).
19. Bernard Klein and Gesa Mackenthune, eds., Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean (New York, 2004);
20. Daniel Finamore, ed., Maritime History as World History (Gainesville, Fla., 2004). Nor are historians the only group drawn to oceanic focuses and frameworks. Ethnomusicologists have taken up the study of circum- Atlantic performance, English departments host conferences on the maritime novel, and students of public policy and international law are turning out important studies of maritime regulatory regimes.
21. Regrettably, the equally rich historiography of the Indian Ocean is not covered in this forum. For entrées into Indian Ocean literature, see Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Introduction," in Kenneth McPherson, ed., Maritime India (Oxford, 2004);
22. and Bose, A Hundred Horizons.
23. Martin Lewis, "Dividing the Ocean Sea," Geographical Review 89, no. 2 (April 1999): 188-214.