Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Language: English
Published by Reaktion Books, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
- Author
- Rozwadowski, Helen M.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1836392672
- ISBN 13
- 9781836392675
‘Timely, concise and compelling . . . Vast Expanses has the capacity to advance understanding, extend engagement and promote a more sophisticated view of our responsibility for the future of oceans. This is a work of the first importance for students of the sea.’ – Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord
Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history of humanity’s relationship with oceans, stretching across geological and evolutionary time and across cultures. It traces ancient connections with the sea and shows how industrialization and globalization multiplied them, challenging Western depictions of the ocean as remote or immune to human influence. The book argues that knowledge of the ocean – discovered through work and play, scientific investigation and through the ambitions people have harboured for the sea – has been central to defining our relationship with this vast, trackless and opaque place. Ultimately, the story of the oceans is also the story of ourselves: what we have taken, what we have imagined and what we must now learn to protect.
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About the Author
Helen M. Rozwadowski is Professor of History and Founder of the Maritime Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea (2005), winner of the 2008 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize.
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