Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans - Couverture souple

Rozwadowski, Helen M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1836392672 ISBN 13 : 9781836392675

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2026

Synopsis

‘Timely, concise and compelling . . . Vast Expanses has the capacity to advance understanding, extend engagement and promote a more sophisticated view of our responsibility for the future of oceans. This is a work of the first importance for students of the sea.’ – Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord

Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history of humanity’s relationship with oceans, stretching across geological and evolutionary time and across cultures. It traces ancient connections with the sea and shows how industrialization and globalization multiplied them, challenging Western depictions of the ocean as remote or immune to human influence. The book argues that knowledge of the ocean – discovered through work and play, scientific investigation and through the ambitions people have harboured for the sea – has been central to defining our relationship with this vast, trackless and opaque place. Ultimately, the story of the oceans is also the story of ourselves: what we have taken, what we have imagined and what we must now learn to protect.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen M. Rozwadowski is Professor of History and Founder of the Maritime Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (2005), winner of the 2008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1836392672
• ISBN 13: 9781836392675
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible