The boundless sea : a human history of the oceans /

The boundless sea : a human history of the oceans /

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Author / Creator:	Abulafia, David, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xxxii, 1050 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ocean and civilization -- History. Trade routes -- History. Navigation -- History. Navigation. Ocean and civilization. Trade routes. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11963293

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ISBN:	9780199934980 0199934983
Notes:	"First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 919-983) and index.
Summary:	"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"--

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Call Number:	CB465 .A28 2019
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