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Oceans in World History (Explorations in World History)
by Rainer Buschmann
Product Group: Book
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2006-09-08)
ISBN: 0073019038
EAN: 9780073019031
Dewy Decimal #: 909.09
Paperback: 168 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 07040025
Condition: Like New as issued n
Comments: Paperback. Like new condition with no markings and no creases to spine or cover. Very slight wear to cover. Near fine copy.
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Product Description
This book explores cross-cultural encounters in the context of exploration, migration, and trade across the world's oceans. From the early migrations of Austronesian peoples to the increasing globalization of recent centuries, it examines trans-oceanic communication and exchange as a major motor of transformation in World History, providing readers with better appreciation of how oceans connect human societies, rather than separate them. .
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Very disappointing
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-01-02
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This booklet of only 131 pages is very disappointing, both as history and as a publication that could have increased the reader's appreciation for the oceanic environment.
The author shows little understanding of the sea and its relationship to the events that make up human history. He treats it as something that is "just there", passive, and significant only by its pervasiveness. Diffusion of peoples beyond their lands of origin is presented as "diasporas" (term used a dozen times), whether forced or voluntary. Well accepted terms are referred to as "so called" (i.e. "so-called Axis Powers" of WW II, "so-called Second International" - of communism). Political correctness appears in "Transoceanic Identities" though the "International Women's Movement", "Workers Internationals", and "Pan-Africanism", have no link to the oceans except that conference attendees come from both sides of oceans. How is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 relevant to the oceans?
The coastal or landlocked location of nations and the effect on their world status is ignored. Views of Spykman and MacKinder with respect to world power are missing, as are specific major events such as the battles of Salamis and Trafalgar, or the "kamikaze" that thwarted Chinese invasion of Japan.
Presentation of the physical characteristics of the oceans is muddled, especially the descriptiion of wind circulation.
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