This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.
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Rainer F. Buschmann is professor and founding faculty member in the history program at the California State University, Channel Islands. He has published Oceans in World History, Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935, Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899, and the co-authored Navigating the Spanish Lake: The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898. In addition to his publications, Professor Buschmann edits the world history section of the History Compass and is co-editor of a new book series entitled "Nebraska Studies in Pacific World."
Lance Nolde is assistant professor in the history program at California State University, Channel Islands. He completed his doctorate in Southeast Asian history at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands in 2014-2015. His current book project, provisionally entitled Changing Tides, explores the history of the semi-nomadic Sama Bajo and their important position within the social, political, and economic networks that spanned maritime Southeast Asia between the 14th and 19th centuries.
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Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. This single-volume resource explores the five major oceans of the world, addressing current issues such as sea rise and climate change and explaining the significance of the oceans from historical, geographic, and cultural perspectives.The World's Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment is a one-stop resource that describes in-depth the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans and identifies their importance, today and throughout history. Essays address the subject areas of oceans and seas in world culture, fishing and shipping industries through history, ocean exploration, and climate change and oceans. The book also presents dozens of entries covering a breadth of topics on human culture, the environment, history, and current issues as they relate to the oceans and ocean life. Sample entries provide detailed information on topics such as the Bermuda Triangle, Coral Reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ice Melt, Myths and Legends, Piracy, and Whaling. Contributions to the work come from top researchers in the fields of history and maritime studies, including Paul D'Arcy, John Gillis, Tom Hoogervorst, Michael North, and Lincoln Paine. The volume highlights the numerous ways in which Earth's oceans have influenced culture and society, from the earliest seafaring civilizations to the future of the planet. Codice articolo CIN1440843511VG
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