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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

byDavid Abulafia

The Boundless Sea is David Abulafia's historical account of a Human History of the Oceans. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

1050

ISBN

9780199934980