Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Paperback Book)

Name: Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought (Paperback Book)
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.\nThe essays in this volume summon up this\n\nCosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price;