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100	1		_aLaloë, Anne-Flore, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe geography of the ocean : _bknowing the ocean as a space / _cAnne-Flore Laloë.
260			_aNew York: _bRoutledge, _c2016
300			_a164 pages : _bill. ;
440			_aStudies in Historical Geography
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
505	0		_aIntellectual setting -- 1492 and the discoveries of America -- The Enlightenment and the ocean-space -- In-depth knowledge : the deep ocean-space.
520			_a"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
546			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aOcean _xHistory.
650		0	_aOcean and civilization.
650		0	_aHistorical geography.
650		0	_aDiscoveries in geography _xHistory.
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