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Loading... The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (edition 2019)by David Abulafia (Author)
Work InformationThe Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. Very good and thought provoking history of trade over and around the world's oceans. Abulafia strays a little from the coast on occasion, but with reason and one can see the usual sort of threads he disappears along in the same way as everyone else who writes these sorts of books seems to. Overall a really good read. no reviews | add a review
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"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"-- No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)551.46Natural sciences and mathematics Earth sciences & geology Geology, Hydrology Meteorology Surface features of the earth OceansLC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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Prior to the bits about European colonization it was focused on the rest of the world and seemed interested in the ways different ship technologies & societies worked. Once it got to European colonization, it just chronicled that expansion, focused on the driving economic and shipbuilding pieces in Europe, with little to no reference to the impacts, artifacts, or sources from outside Europe, also mostly avoided the slave trade except in a few euphemisms