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Margaret Cohen is Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, USA, where she teaches in the Department of English, and by courtesy, in the Departments of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature. Her most recent book is The Novel and the Sea (2010), which was awarded the Louis R. Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the George and Barbara Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of the Narrative.Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect?
56 experts, 48 chapters and over 1,700 pages explore how representation and understanding of the sea has developed over 2,500 years of cultural and natural history.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Medieval Age (1800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 - Global Age (1920 - 2000+).
Each volumes adopts the same thematic structure, covering: Knowledges, Practices, Networks, Islands and Shores, Travelers, Representation, Imaginary Worlds, and Conflicts, enabling readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.
A Cultural History of the Sea is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .
Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Sea in Antiquity
Edited by Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Tufts University, USA
1. Knowledges, Georgia L. Irby
2. Practices, Mirella Romero Recio
3. Networks, Zaraza Friedman
4. Conflicts, Jorit Wintjes
5. Islands and Shores, Gabriela Cursaru
6. Travellers, Raimund Shulz
7. Representations, Valérie Toillon
8. Imaginary Worlds, Iris Sulimani
Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age
Edited by Elizabeth A. Lambourn, De Montfort University, UK
1. Knowledges, Eric Staples
2. Practices, Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jennifer Harland
3. Networks, Jonathan Shepard
4. Conflicts, Elizabeth Lambourn
5. Islands and Shores, Roxani E. Margariti
6. Travellers, Sharon Kinoshita
7. Representations, Emmanuelle Vagnon
8. Imaginary Worlds, James L. Smith
Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Renaissance
Edited by Steve Mentz, St John's University, USA
1. Knowledges, Christopher L. Pastore
2. Practices, John B. Hattendorf
3. Networks, Dan Brayton
4. Conflicts, Dyani Johns Taff
5. Islands and Shores, Debapriya Sarkar
6. Travellers, Josiah Blackmore
7. Representations, James Seth
8. Imaginary Worlds, Lowell Duckert
Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University, USA
1. Knowledges, Hanna Roman
2. Practices, Adam Miller
3. Networks, Anne M. Thell
4. Conflicts, David Taylor
5. Islands and Shores, Killian Quigley
6. Travellers, Jonathan Schroeder
7. Visualizations and Representations, Christopher Pinney
8. Imaginary Worlds, Margarette Lincoln
Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Empire
Edited by Margaret Cohen, Stanford University, USA
1. Knowledges, Natascha Adamowsky
2. Practices, Richard King
3. Networks, Siobhan Carroll
4. Conflicts, William Boelhower
5. Islands and Shores, Iain McCalman
6. Travellers, Adriana Craciun
7. Representations, Charne Lavery
8. Imaginary Worlds, Cannon Schmitt
Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age
Edited by Franziska Torma, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
1. Knowledges, Sabine Höhler
2. Practices, Colin Dewey
3. Networks, Johanna Sackel and Anna-Katharina Wöbse
4. Conflicts, Simone M. Müller
5. Islands and Shores, Rebecca Hofmann
6. Travellers, Helen M. Rozwadowski
7. Representations, Jon Crylen
8. Imaginary Worlds, Ariane Tanner
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
“Intriguing, surprising, and thought-provoking essays covering many cultural layers of dress history.”
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
“A comprehensive treatise that belongs in every academic library concerned with a form of literature that has had broad appeal for centuries and continues to do so.”
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A Cultural History of Hair
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.”
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A Cultural History of Law
“These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods.”
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A Cultural History of Peace
“The set is a good introduction to the study of peace and encourages looking at world history in a new way.”
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A Cultural History of Theatre
“All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal.”
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A Cultural History of Tragedy
“A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality.”
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A Cultural History of Western Empires
“Students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here.”
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A Cultural History of Work
“[Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.”
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