Sea Changes: Historicizing the OceanBernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of the role of the sea: not merely as a passage from one country to the next, but a historical site deserving close study. |
Contents
Deep Times Deep Spaces | 13 |
Costume Changes | 37 |
The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone | 55 |
Ahabs Boat | 75 |
The Red Atlantic or a terrible blast swept over | 111 |
Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies | 131 |
At SeaColoured Passenger | 149 |
Slavery Insurance and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic | 167 |
Cast Away | 187 |
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Contributors | 209 |
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