Steve Mentz

Ocean (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience.

From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501348648
• Artikelnr.: 58613435

Autorenporträt

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of three books, including Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550 - 1719 (2015), and the editor of four books. His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Deterratorializing Preface1. Two Origins: Alien or Core?2. Seafood before History3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate6. Sailors: A Technological History7. Interlude: Port of New York8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids10. Wet Globalization II: Containers11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson12. Swimmers: Immersive HistoriesAcknowledgmentsReading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical EssayIndex

Rezensionen

Steve Mentz's Ocean is both a lyrical and scholarly ode to the sea, encrusting and fluid. The Millions