Taking history offshore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23659017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Gillis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 19-31 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Islands in History and Representation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003060260-2 |
| OpenAlex | W3092264059 |
| ISBN | 9781003060260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Continental Europeans had been thinking archipelagically long before they ventured offshore into the Atlantic. By the eighteenth century the Atlantic had come closer than at any time in its history to becoming, like Pacific Oceania, a sea of islands. As in the ancient and medieval worlds, islands were good places to think with, all the better when they were just beyond the edge of the known world, or, better yet, safely beyond reach of actual observation. Some of the mythic islands seeded in medieval maps were to be purged in the course of the Age of Discovery, but many, like Saint Brendan&s;s, Brazile, Antilia, and California, all found new locations in yet unsurveyed places. Island utopias were the product of a distinctly modern imagination, but one still reliant on the insular as a primary symbolic resource. Atlantic islands had moved from the periphery to become nodes in the expanding networks of trade that constituted the central feature of commercial capitalism.
Marine engineering · Submarine pipeline · Canadian Policy and Governance · Computer Science · Engineering · Geology · Oceanography · Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |