Ocean
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 19 March 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501348631
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 164x120x20 mm
- Weight 180 g
- Language English 46
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Short description:
Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective.
MoreLong description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience.
From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
Deterratorializing Preface
1. Two Origins: Alien or Core?
2. Seafood before History
3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles
4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene
5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate
6. Sailors: A Technological History
7. Interlude: Port of New York
8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson
9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids
10. Wet Globalization II: Containers
11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson
12. Swimmers: Immersive Histories
Acknowledgments
Reading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical Essay
Index
