A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611685400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 290 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks is a great source for readers who seek a broad overview of maritime history.” —The Great Circle, Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History
In a series of compelling narratives, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks shows that the development of institutions and technologies that made the terrifying oceans familiar and turned unknown seas into well-traveled sea-lanes matters profoundly in our modern world.. Stories of disasters at sea, whether about Roman triremes, the treasure fleet of the Spanish Main, or great transatlantic ocean liners, fire the imagination as little else can. From the historical sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania to the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship, the study of shipwrecks also makes for a new and very different understanding of world history. A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks explores the age-old, immensely hazardous, persistently romantic, and ongoing process of moving people and goods across the seven seas.In recounting the stories of ships and the people who made and sailed them, from the earliest craft plying the ancient Nile to the Exxon Valdez, Stewart Gordon argues that the gradual integration of mainly local and separate maritime domains into fewer, larger, and more interdependent regions offers a unique perspective on world history. Gordon draws a number of provocative conclusions from his study, among them that the European “Age of Exploration” as
introduction and skimmed a few chapters but it looks like I'm really going to enjoy this book when I Have read only the introduction and skimmed a few chapters but it looks like I'm really going to enjoy this book when I give it a complete read.. William C. Hagen said Backfilling History. The author has selected an interesting and novel approach to the study of world history. Rather than following one crisis after another or the biographies of ‘Great Men’, Gordon has selected ship wrecks as a common focus to fill in the gaps often left by traditional historians. This does not give a natural flow of hist. Stan Prager said Collection of Essays Rather Than a Book: Misleading Title. When A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks by Stewart Gordon showed up in my early reviewers program, I eagerly bid on it because the title at once conjured up for me Uluburun, the spectacular Bronze Age Mediterranean shipwreck that revealed to underwater archaeologists a long lost era of ancient international trade that co