Beschreibung:
The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship.
Introduction, Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun 1. Deep Times, Deep Spaces: Civilizing the Sea, Greg Dening 2. Costume Changes: Passing at Sea and on the Beach, Vanessa Smith 3. The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities and Culture, James Francis Warren 4. Ahab's Boat: Non-European Seamen in Western Ships of Exploration and Commerce, David A. Chappell 5. Staying Afloat: Literary Shipboard Encounters from Columbus to Equiano, Bernhard Klein 6. The Red Atlantic; or, 'a terrible blast swept over the heaving sea', Marcus Rediker 7. Chartless Voyages and Protean Geographies: Nineteenth-Century American Fictions of the Black Atlantic, Gesa Mackenthun 8. 'At Sea-Coloured Passenger', Alasdair Pettinger 9. Slavery, Insurance and Sacrifice in the Black Atlantic, Tim Armstrong 10. Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth, Peter Hulme