The geography of the ocean : knowing the ocean as a space / Anne-Flore Laloë.
By: Laloë, Anne-Flore [author.].
Series: Studies in Historical Geography. Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2016Description: 164 pages : ill.ISBN: 9781138546509.Subject(s): Ocean -- History | Ocean and civilization | Historical geography | Discoveries in geography -- HistoryDDC classification: 910.9162| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
Intellectual setting -- 1492 and the discoveries of America -- The Enlightenment and the ocean-space -- In-depth knowledge : the deep ocean-space.
"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." -- Publisher
English.
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