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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic, from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of inquiry to tie together human and natural histories. They reflect contemporary concerns with declining fisheries, damaged estuaries, and vanishing coastal communities. Here the history of oceanic sciences meets that of literary and artistic imagination, offering vivid insights into the meanings as well as the materiality of waves and swamps, coasts and coral reefs. In their introduction, John Gillis and Franziska Torma suggest the directions in which the fluid frontiers of marine environmental history are moving.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. John R. Gillis and Franziska Torma I. REIMAGINING OCEANS 1. Waterlands of the Semi-Wild: Making Nature From the Swamp. Adam Keul 2. Filling Boston Commons: Law, Culture, and Ecology in a Seventeenth Century Estuary. Chris Pastore 3. Escaping the Maritime Revival Viewpoint. Glen Grasso 4. Beneath the Surface of the Pacific Waters: John Steinbeck's (Deep) Ecological Explorations. Petr Kopecky II. HISTORICISING SEAS AND MARINE LIFE 5. To the Islands: Ecological Imperialism on the North-West Australian Coast. Joseph Christensen 6. Old and New Waves. Stefan Helmreich 7. Fishing Communities in Eighteenth Century Iceland. Stuart Morrison 8. Modernity and Marine Environmental History: Georges Bank Fisheries, 1905-12. Matthew McKenzie 9. Producing Ocean Territories and Mapping Ghosts: Stories from the production of the New England Fisheries Management. Rob Snyder III. SCIENCE AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE 10. From Cook to Cousteau: The Many Lives of Coral Reefs. Alistair Sponsel 11. The Arctic Ocean as Outdoor Laboratory: Polar Research Traditions and the First International Polar Year. Alexander Kraus 12. The Ocean Seen as Tridimensional Social Space: The Case of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Christian Fleury 13. The First Steps toward a 'Correspondence Principle' in Ecology: The Horizontal and the Vertical of Oceans and Islands. Michael Reidy
