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The Geography of the Ocean: Knowing the ocean as a space: Studies in Historical Geography

Autor Anne-Flore Laloë
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2016
Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth’s surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book employs a broad conceptual and methodological framework to analyse specific events that have contributed to the production of geographical knowledge about the ocean. These include, but are not limited to, Christopher Columbus’ first transatlantic journey, the mapping of nonexistent islands, the establishment of transoceanic trade routes, the discovery of largescale water movements, the HMS Challenger expedition, the search for the elusive Terra Australis Incognita, the formulation of the theory of continental drift and the mapping of the seabed.

Using a combination of original, empirical (archival, material and cartographic), and theoretical sources, this book uniquely brings together fascinating narratives throughout history to produce a representation and mapping of geographical oceanic knowledge. It questions how we know what we know about the oceans and how this knowledge is represented and mapped. The book then uses this representation and mapping as a way to coherently trace the evolution of oceanic spatial awareness.

In recent years, particularly in historical geography, discovering and knowing the ocean-space has been a completely separate enterprise from discovering and colonising the lands beyond it. There has been such focus on studying colonised lands, yet the oceans between them have been neglected. This book gives the geographical ocean a voice to be acknowledged as a space where history, geography and indeed historical geography took place.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781409421436
ISBN-10: 1409421430
Pagini: 170
Ilustrații: 24
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Studies in Historical Geography

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents: Introduction; Intellectual setting; 1492 and the discoveries of America; The Enlightenment and the ocean-space; In-depth knowledge: the deep ocean-space; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Notă biografică

Anne-Flore Laloë, after graduating from the University of Exeter, was Curator of Historical Collections at the Marine Biological Association of the UK. Since January 2015, she has been Archivist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Descriere

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines ocean-space, our knowledge and perceptions of it. This book uniquely brings together fascinating specific stories from throughout history with a broad overview of the production of geographical knowledge about the ocean. It questions how we know what we know about the oceans, and how this knowledge is represented and mapped. The books then uses this representation and mapping of geographical knowledge as a way coherently tracing the evolution of oceanic spatial awareness.