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History, Geography, and the Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2016

Alexis Wick
Alexis Wick*
Affiliation:
Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; e-mail: aw08@aub.edu.lb
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Extract

Maritime history has grown exponentially in recent years. Seen as a remedy to the ideological straightjackets of nation-state and area studies paradigms associated with modernization theory, a methodological orientation towards the sea offers the historian the advantages of an interactive transnational approach, and places matters of the environment and material culture before stories of kings and battles. Crucially, it focuses on flows, routes, mobility, and exchange rather than fixed identities and linear trajectories.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 4 , November 2016 , pp. 743 - 745
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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