The East Asian 'Mediterranean': a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world
Schottenhammer, A. (2013). The East Asian 'Mediterranean': a medium of flourishing exchange relations and interaction in the East Asian world, in: Miller, P.N. (Ed.) The sea: thalassography and historiography. pp. 109-144 In: Miller, P.N. (Ed.) (2013). The sea: thalassography and historiography. University of Michigan Press: Michigan. ISBN 9780472118670. xiv, 288 pp., more |
| Abstract | The Sea brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing that focuses on connectivity, networks, and individuals describes the horizons and the potential of thalassography---the study of the world made by individuals embedded in networks of motion. As Peter N. Miller contends in his introduction, writing about the sea, today, is a way of partaking in the wider historiographical shift toward microhistory; exchange relations; networks; and, above all, materiality, both literally and figuratively. The Sea focuses not on questions of discipline and professionalization as much as on the practice of scholarship: the writing, and therefore the planning and organizing, of histories of the sea. |
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