The Red Sea : in search of lost space

1. Verfasser: Wick, Alexis, 1981- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016].
Umfang/Format: 276 pages.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Rotes Meer
Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : history at sea : space and the other
  • The place in the middle : a geohistory of the Red Sea
  • Thalassology alla turca : six theses on the philosophy of history
  • Self-portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea, 20th of July 1777
  • The scientific invention of the Red Sea
  • Thalassomania : modernity and the sea
  • Conclusion : rigging the historian's craft : for an epistemology of composition.